Opening specific folder on NAS crashes finder

A subfolder of my iTunes Music Folder, which lives on my NAS, frequently "goes bad", after which point opening that folder always causes Finder to crash in both Leopard and Tiger.
The same folder - let's call it "MusicA" - has been going bad occasionally for months now, and the only way I know to fix it is to log in to the NAS with one of my Linux boxes, create a new folder "MusicB", move the contents of MusicA into MusicB, rename or delete MusicA, and then rename MusicB to MusicA (so that iTunes can continue to find the files it knows live in MusicA).
I can't use Disk Utility to check permissions on the NAS, since it's technically a file server, not a drive. I don't know how to cd into the NAS using the terminal on my Mac, since $ cd /Volumes/WORKGROUP;DRIVENAME/folder just causes terminal to complain:
-bash: cd: /Volumes/WORKGROUP: No such file or directory
-bash: DRIVENAME/folder: No such file or directory
I've also tried to cd to a folder on the NAS using its IP address, in a way similar to how I mount the drive in the command line in Linux, but I haven't gotten this to work correctly, either. Although I have tinkered with Linux for years, I'm no uberhacker.
I have a massive music collection, which I have ripped and organized over the years using Windows, various flavors of Linux, and more recently, Mac OS X. I currently have a Mini running OS X Tiger, and a Mac Book running Leopard. I primarily listen to and organize music with iTunes on the Mac Mini.
The problem typically develops when I move a folder or folders from elsewhere on the NAS into MusicA. It doesn't happen every time by any means, but it seems to happen once every week or two, and it's a huge hassle to stop what I'm doing and go through the rigmarole I described above, just so I can continue organizing files in MusicA with finder, and adding files from MusicA to my library in iTunes.
I'm wondering if it's an text encoding problem with a folder or file name. I do have a lot of foreign music, but the foreign characters in the filenames and tags don't specifically seem to cause problems. And when I move the files to a new folder, the problem doesn't seem to follow them there. Furthermore, even if I rename MusicA with Linux after that folder has become problematic, opening the renamed folder with either of my Macs still causes finder to crash. Also, other folders on the NAS and on the system I'm using to access it remain unaffected - after finder crashes and restarts, I can navigate anywhere else on the NAS or the local system with no problems.
So it seems to be more of a problem with the parent folder, MusicA, even though the problem arises as a result of moving other files or folders into it.
I have searched this discussion forum, as well as the internet at large, quite extensively to try to find a fix for this problem, and while I've found many different accounts of finder crashing for one reason or another, I can't find anything describing symptoms exactly like the ones that continue to plague me. Stuffit seems to cause finder crashes for a lot of people, but it's not installed on my Mac Mini.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what I should try next to get to the root of the problem?

Hi vodsonic, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Off hand it sounds more like HDD corruption, but a couple of other things it might be...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Can get corrupted by long filenames or maybe foreign characters, try deleting it and reboot.
In finder, select Go menu>Go to Folder, and go to "/volumes".
Volumes is where an alias to your hard drive ("/" at boot) is placed at startup, and where all the "mount points" for auxiliary drives are created for you to access them. This folder is normally hidden from view.
Drives with an extra 1 on the end have a side-effect of mounting a drive with the same name as the system already think exists. Try trashing the duplicates with a 1, and reboot.
Or we could try deleting those silly hidden DS_Store files first...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10478
Invisibility Toggler - 1.1...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32246
InVisibles - 1.5...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14722
To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below.
Note: This will affect the user's interactions with SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV servers.
1 Open the Terminal.
2 Type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
3 Press Return.
4 Restart the computer.
If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of your newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other target users.
These steps do not prevent the Finder from creating .DS_Store files on the local volume. These steps do not prevent previously existing .DS_Store files from being copied to the remote file server.

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I have recently purchased a new computer and photoshop element. It looks like its downloaded it but I don't know how to access it. it says file are ready...down load files have been extracted and saved to folder....launch PS elements and open specific fol

I have recently purchased a new computer and photoshop element. It looks like its downloaded it but I don't know how to access it. it says file are ready...down load files have been extracted and saved to folder....launch PS elements and open specific folder. it looks like it downloads. It then keeps taking me back to this page. Im not sure where to go next

if you have a win os you should have dl'd an exe and a 7z file.
put both in the same directory and double click the exe.

Finder window crashing when i try to open a specific folder in my documents folder.

my computer won't open a specific folder in my documents folder. it will let me open other folders but not his one. when i click to open it get a notice that Finder has unexpectedly quit. Any help would be appreciated as it's my main folder!

I am totally at sea here, but is this what you mean? There's more text but here is the beginning of the report...
Process:         Finder [501]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier:      com.apple.finder
Version:         10.7.3 (10.7.3)
Build Info:      Finder_FE-751003013000000~4
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [110]
Date/Time:       2012-06-07 11:51:11.640 +0100
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53)
Report Version: 9
Crashed Thread: 5 Dispatch queue: TNodeEngine 0x7f8cdb37cda0
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000
VM Regions Near 0:
-->
    __TEXT                 000000010c216000-000000010c722000 [ 5168K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Application Specific Information:
objc[501]: garbage collection is OFF
Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff9376067a mach_msg_trap + 10
1   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff9375fd71 mach_msg + 73
2   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff9474e50c __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 188
3   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff94756c74 __CFRunLoopRun + 1204
4   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x00007fff94756486 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
5   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff9a59a4d3 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 277
6   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff9a5a1781 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 355
7   com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x00007fff9a5a160e BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
8   com.apple.AppKit                        0x000000010ccfee31 _DPSNextEvent + 659
9   com.apple.AppKit                        0x000000010ccfe735 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
10 com.apple.AppKit                        0x000000010ccfb071 -[NSApplication run] + 470
11 com.apple.AppKit                        0x000000010cf77244 NSApplicationMain + 867
12 com.apple.finder                        0x000000010c21c4af 0x10c216000 + 25775
13 com.apple.finder                        0x000000010c21c474 0x10c216000 + 25716

How to Open a Specific Folder in the Finder via Shortcut Key

I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere, so sorry for not finding it...
Is it possible to assign a shortcut key to open a specific folder with Automator or AppleScript? There are 4-5 commonly used folders buried 10-11 levels deep on a server and I'd love to have a shortcut key to open those particular folders in the Finder.
Could you give me some assistance?
Thanks!

QuickKeys may work, or you can look on http://www.versiontracker.com or http://www.macupdate.com for other alternatives.
Another option is to create aliases to those folders and store the aliases in a local folder which you can place on your Dock, the Finder window sidebar or toolbar.

Can't open 'Downloads' folder. Finder crash.

Can't open my 'Downloads' folder. Every attempt to open it crashes Finder and restores a new finder window. However I have no problems with other folders. I appreciate any input or suggestions. Using a Late 2009 White Unibody Macbook with OS X Lion 10.7.1.
Thanks.

Solved.
Went into terminal and deleted the corrupted .DS_Store file.

Finder runs near 100% cpu when I open a specific folder.

I noticed my mac pro battery went to the red zone in under two hours, it normally goes all day. I checked activity monitor and it showed finder using 97% cpu.
To keep it short, I discovered there's a problem only when I have a specific folder open. I don't have to be accessing the folder, finder goes near 100% anytime this folder is open, even when there are no other apps running. It's a relatively large folder - about 3300 items counting all files and subfolders. Is there a maximum size finder can handle under snow leopard or, perhaps, on an intel processor? I tried moving half the items to another folder and the problem seemed to stop. This isn't a good solution for me, however, as I need all the files located together.
There is no problem with this folder on my good old power pc running 10.4, so I'm processing it there for the time being.
HELP? Thanks.

No, info is not checked, nor is arrange by nor show icon. Thanks anyway.
However, curiously, if I change view from icon to list, finder cpu % drops down to near zero. Change view back to icon, and finder goes crazy again. Maybe this'll mean something to someone?
Meanwhile, I can now use that folder, just have to remember to set it to list view.

Opening folder Crashes Finder...Help

Hi,
Certain random folders on my system cannot be opened
I double clicked the folder to open it and it seemed to freeze my mac finder and cleared my desk top for a couple of seconds but the folder still did not open. Only a finder window opened showing my drives. and the icons for my hard drives were "moved" from where they were.
to me, it resembled a "soft reboot"
Can someone tell me what's going on, and why I cant simply open a folder???
Thanks

Yeah, I was going to mention that it never stays in one place, nor is it in the same place at the same time if viewed another way!
Anyway, from their Profile...
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7256741#7256741

Finder crash when opening any folder of an external HD

I have a big problem : when I plug an external hard disk (I have tried 3 of them, all in HFS+), my MBP recognizes it, I can open a couple of folders inside, then it crash, finder is blocked. The only solution is to unplug the hard disk and relaunch the finder, even sometimes reboot manually... Of course all of my hard drives used to work on Snow Leopard. Any idea, or anyone has the same problem ? PS : fortunalety time machine (on another hard disk) works fine but I find it very slow in comparison with SL...

I have a big problem : when I plug an external hard disk (I have tried 3 of them, all in HFS+), my MBP recognizes it, I can open a couple of folders inside, then it crash, finder is blocked. The only solution is to unplug the hard disk and relaunch the finder, even sometimes reboot manually... Of course all of my hard drives used to work on Snow Leopard. Any idea, or anyone has the same problem ? PS : fortunalety time machine (on another hard disk) works fine but I find it very slow in comparison with SL...

Unable to open iTunes music folder on NAS after 10.5.6 update

I just updated my system to 10.5.6 and am now unable to open my iTunes music folder on my Sans Digital MN2L NAS. I can connect to the device and open every other folder but not the music folder. When I try to open the folder the finder window shows the spinning whatever in the bottom right corner for about 10 seconds and then restarts. This occurs when I connect using Bonjour and SMB. I can open the folder in question through my windows laptop without problem. There are approximately 1200 subfolders contained within the Music folder. My iMac and NAS are both connected through the same gigabit switch via CAT 5e.

I just found a post on another board that appears to have solved my problem. The issue wasn't really with the NAS but rather with a file that the finder left in the Music folder in the NAS.
The following is an excerpt from the post I found:
DS_STORE files might very well have been the culprit. I was given the advice and link to the
following:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16831&sliceId=2
Now I've only just resolved it however I have accessed folders which previsouly always resulted in a
crash. Some other links I was sent:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4553291&#4553291
For removing .DS_store see
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4643556&#4643556

Windows explorer stopped working when trying to open a specific folder...and solution

I have had a problem with a specific folder or two on my computer, when I open the folder I get the error message that windows explorer has stopped working. It only happens with specific folders and everything else works fine.
I did a lot of reading to figure out a fix.
I finally tried right clicking the program explorer.exe located in C:Windows and chose "run as administrator" and this fixed the problem.
Note that the error message details list an application crash of windows.exe
I thought I would post this to help others. I don't know if this is the same problem some folks describe with a continual loop of the error message, problems opening the control panel or problems upon start up. But if you have a similar problem to the one I described try this very simple fix.
Cheers

I don't know what OS you are running, but under Windows 7 RC build 7100 the selection was ghosted to "run as administrator".
I was able to stop the problem from happening by right clicking the folder I was having problems with, selecting properties>customize tab and changing the "Optimize this folder for:" from Videos to General Items.
I know that this particular folder was optimized for general items from the beginning as I had just folders inside which were filled with videos. When I started to move videos into this parent folder to separate them later, this parent folder switched by itself
to being optimized for Videos. I'm not positive but I think that this was the time I started to have a problem with this folder until I did what I described above.
This is my very first post, so I hope I explained things well enough to be of help to someone.
Thanks
That's fixed my problem. Stopped responding every time I opened My Videos, changed the file properties to optimized for general and now the icons aren't thumbnail big but it doesn't crash now... Thank you, it was really starting to bug me.

Problem Application - can't open Applications folder in finder

Dear All,
I went to upgrade an application (Transmission) today, but during the upgrade, my macbook requested to be restarted. I did this, and now whenever that application is encountered in finder, it crashes finder. This means I cannot open the folder in finder, or from my dock. If I search for it using spotlight, it also crashes.
I have tried deleting it through terminal, but when I navigate to the applications folder, and type "ls -l", no contents are listed, though I can still load other applications through spotlight.
Does anyone have any idea what I might be able to do to delete this problem application? I was hoping to just do a system restore using my time-machine backups, but I don't have an install CD, and apparently you can't do that without one of those.
Thank you in advance for any advice!
Tom (UK)

tjw62 wrote:
I went to upgrade an application (Transmission) today, but during the upgrade, my macbook requested to be restarted. I did this, and now whenever that application is encountered in finder, it crashes finder. This means I cannot open the folder in finder, or from my dock. If I search for it using spotlight, it also crashes.
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
I'd launch the Console utility and look under ~/Library/Logs and /Library/Logs for a CrashReporter item. If you see a Finder crash log in either of those locations, post the contents here and someone may be able to help you decipher what's wrong.
I'd also use Disk Utility to do a "verify disk" operation on your boot drive to see if that reveals anything.
Does anyone have any idea what I might be able to do to delete this problem application? I was hoping to just do a system restore using my time-machine backups, but I don't have an install CD, and apparently you can't do that without one of those.
If all else fails it's probably possible to use commands in the Terminal application to delete the problematic application, but first I'd try the things I suggest above.

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