Maverick Finder problems

Dear all,
After Maverick upgrade the usual way from Muntain Lion Finder crashes. At first, the Desktop was invisible, Finder icon jiggled and could not be selected and force quit was not possible. Opening another app from the Dock made it possible to see the menu bar. Only in in safe boot the system worked normally. Read the threads here; deleted finder.plist, checked Activity Monitor, etc. to no avail. After eliminating third party apps from the login pane, it is possible to see the desktop after a few minutes of Finder blinking and showing barely-read "Do You Want to Keep Windows Open Next Time" prompt which is impossible to select and click.
A portion of the last (when the desktop was visible) Console Crash Report is here:
Exc-Bad-Access (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: Kern-Invalid-Address at 0x00000000000000018
What does it say and what should I do?
Please help.
Thank you.
Message was edited by: gerger

If you have Dropbox or Google Drive installed one of them may be the cause. I was using Dropbox and it seemed to be the cause. I unlinked from Dropbox, removed the App and downloaded the newest version and reinstalled. All is well now. As for the steps for dealing with Google Drive I would not know as I am not using it but have seen it mentioned on the discussion boards.
Hope this helps,
Ben
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