Weird Finder Crash?

I hope someone here can help me. I've owned this 13" Macbook for about 1.5 years and it's my first mac ever. I've never seen it do this before and don't know what's causing it. I'd like to get a logger to record what happens, but don't know how to do that.
Starting yesterday, my computer randomly (it seems) stopped p allowing me to fully switch between programs from time to time. What happens is that I am in a program (so far it's happened while in Skype, Calculator, InDesign and Preview) and suddenly Cmd-Tab to switch between programs does nothing. The only way I can get to another program is to go to my hot corner that makes all the windows of all the open programs display and clicking on the window of a different program. But when I am in that program, I only have limited functionality. For example, I can not save a document nor can I type in a document or editable field on a web page. I can however follow links in a web page or click and get a cursor in a document. Additionally, the menu at the top of the screen is still the one from the program I was in when the problem started. So if I was in Skype, it's only skype menus at the top and they are unusable.
This can happen whether or not I quit the program I am in and even if I choose force quit in the Apple menu (the only one which works when this happens) and force quit a program, it doesn't help. I have tried re-launching Finder through the force quit window and it doesn't help. After a few minutes, even this menu stops working and the only thing I can do is hold the power button down till the computer shuts off. When I turn it back on, the same thing keeps happening. If I restart from the Apple menu, the computer is fine when it re-boots until the problem re-occurs.
I should say that the ONLY change I have made to my system is telling it to stop using the external drive I was using for Time Machine for that purpose and then re-formatting that drive. I also put all of my pictures onto that drive and deleted them from my HDD (a new Time Machine drive is on the way because the old one was too small).
This is a really frustrating problem and I don't even know what to search on to try and find solutions. If there's any help or solutions or suggestions you can give, I would appreciate it. This is concerning because, although I have been saving more often while this has been happening, there is more of a chance that work is going to be lost.

Well I am having a issue with finder also. I get Finder quit unexpectedly window and it keeps popping up making things a real pain in the... I can not use any apple programs only firefox works right now. Because finder wont open I can not try and re install snow leopard from disk. My computer started freezing up today so I upgraded to 10.6.4 and I got the finder problem. Any help would be nice.

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Finder crashes when scrolling in a large directory

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Finder crashing on right click

I am running OS 10.4.8 on a MacBookPro Core 2 duo/2.33 GHz/3GB RAM machine, and have been finding lately that I am getting Finder crashes when I right (contextual) click a file in the Finder. Often it happens when I want to change the colour of the item or make an alias. Strangely enough it usually happens the second time I try it in a row: first time works fine, when I try it on a second file there is a slight pause and the screen goes blank as the FInder re-starts.
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Finder crashed and now I can't access to anything !

Hi there,
So here is the thing... I was working on my Macbook Pro Retina with Yosemite. Everthing was just fine till suddently, Finder crashed... I had to force a restart and that's how my nightmare begun !
I get to launch the computer but when I'm on my desktop I see a message saying something like "The last time you opened finder, it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows...." It asks me if I want to reopen but no matter what I do... everything dissapears and I just see my desktop wallpaper...
Top finder bar isn't there... there's just a BLACK bar instead
Dock isn't there...
Sometimes I get to see my Desktop icons but when I click anything... everything disappears.
I'm sorry I can't explain it better but I don't really know about computer technical things...
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I've reinstalled Yosemite and still the same problem
I don't really know what to do...
Any thoughts ?
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english !

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
For this step, the title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
          SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
          View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
In the top right corner of the Console window, there's a search box labeled Filter. Initially the words "String Matching" are shown in that box. Enter the name of the crashed application or process. For example, if Safari crashed, you would enter "Safari" (without the quotes.)
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
☞ The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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In the Console window, select
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I know the report is long, maybe several hundred lines. Please post all of it anyway.
If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a crash, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
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I used Carbon Copy Cloner to replicate the entire drive to another, newly reformatted drive and made that drive the startup disk. No change in behavior.
It sure seems that the issue has to do with some kind of file corruption (that CCC dutifully replicated) rather than a faulty drive, but I have no idea where to look next for a solution (other than reformatting and reinstalling over 100 applications from scratch; ugh).
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Hi - I too am having this issue.
When I click on any of the items in my sidebar (i.e. -desktop, documents, applications, etc...) this causes the finder to crash and restart.
I have tried trashing the com.apple.finder.plist and running disk utility but to no avail. I also found this other forum discussion (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1336291?start=0&tstart=0) Where this was part of the post
petrock
Re: finder crashes when clicking desktop icon in sidebar - any help?
Feb 2, 2008 3:43 PM (in response to choegl)
choegl, that crash is the same place as andreas's but it got there in a different manor. In the manor I would expect it to. It is trying to retarget the window to your selection in the sidebar and setup List View according to the view options for that folder from that folder's .DS_Store. Its specifically trying to get the label for one of the columns in List View (i.e. Size or Name or Date Modified) but the value it gets from the .DS_Store is corrupt/bogus and causes the Finder to crash (specifically a component underneath the Finder call CoreFoundation via a call to CFStringGetLength). Here's how you solve your problem. In /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app type: +cd <path to problem folder>+
+rm .DS_Store+
+killall Finder+ Pressing return after each line. You can get the path to the problem folder by drag/dropping the folder into the Terminal window. When the Finder comes back up, see if it still crashes when you click on that problem folder (i.e. your Desktop) in the sidebar. Repeat the steps above for any other folders that behave this way when you click on them in the sidebar. Hope that helps everyone...
btw, I wrote up a bug report on your behalf about this issue and sent it off to Apple (# 5721669)."
I tried this as well and nothing!
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm at a loss and am hating this issue! BTW, if I right click on any of the items in the sidebar, I can then click on open to get the folder to open. HASSLE! and if I forget (which is likely since I move too fast for my own good) then I crash the finder. Also, this happens on all the users on my mac.
Thanks!!!!
Matthew
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OS 10.4.7 finder crashing every second

I have the console log and a witness, for those who think I am hallucinating.
Last night this happened twice. Firefox crashed, and took a couple of open applications with it. Rapidly, the finder crashed, opened again, crashed, opened again, rinse and repeat, the remaining open applications crashed, and the finder opened and crashed repeatedly approximately every second. It was like a slow strobe light. I watched in amazement for a while then powered it off. The apps that phone home and report crashes crashed too, but all crashes were written to the console log (I haven't checked the app logs themselves yet.)
My son went back to what he was doing, to apologize to the friends he was chatting to, and the whole thing happened again. We powered off and I declared it bed time.
I started in safe mode this morning and it is OK so far.
My son thinks the trigger for the initial crash was MSN web messenger running on Firefox and using Japanese language.
Isn't OS X designed so that when an application crashes that is the only one that crashes and other applications and the system itself are protected? What could be going on here? While my son is waiting for his PC to come back from the repair shop, should I let him chat with his Japanese friends on my Mac or ban him?
Pam
(P.S. I have good reasons to use Firefox not Safari, but that is a different topic.)

I'm glad there is someone else out there who has seen this. I was worried I would have no cred at all. My son is studying software engineering, and has studied computer science, and stresses his PC to the max when gaming, and he has never seen any computer anywhere crash like that.
If he asks to use my Mac again, I will make sure all the Japanese fonts are enabled (I have hundreds of fonts, so won't enable them all).
Add to the weird stuff: an iCal alarm reminding me to put out the garbage stayed open and I was able to close it even with the finder flashing on and off like that. My garbage note was the only thing that survived.

Finder crashes when I create an alias on my iDisk

This is sort of weird, and I believe it may have started with the last OS update. When I create an alias by control-clicking or right clicking on a file that is on my iDisk, Finder crashes to permanent beachball. It does this every time. It can be restarted with the force quit menu.
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Yes, I do know - thanks, Kirk. And I used to use that feature. But now, I have so many files on my iDisk that it takes too long to sync the whole thing, particularly on my Macbook when I'm away from home on a hotspot or slow wireless.
I don't want to take the older files off, because I need to reference them occasionally so I want to make sure they're available everywhere, even when I might not have my laptop and be on someone else's unit. It's just the two or three active files I am working at the time that I put on my desktop as aliases.
I suppose "back to my Mac" might now be an option for the older files, since I now have an Airport Express. It previously would not work on my cable modem connection, though.
In any event, I used to be able to create the aliases exactly the same way, and now it crashes Finder. So I'm kind of suspicious a bug came in on the last revision.

Finder Crashes on "Right-Click" or "Control-Click"

I dont know if this is a PB or OS X problem. i'll probably post to both forums. on a brand-new PB 1.67 15" 2GB RAM - right-clicking in the finder windows, and only in the finder windows (other programs are fine) the Finder will crash and relaunch itself. this happens with a right-click mouse, control-click mouse and control-click with the trackpad. the only way around this is to use the "Gear" button on the top of the finder window to launch the right-click window.
anyone else having this issue? i have a feeling its a PB issue because i have received a bunch of iBooks and G5s in the last few weeks, brought all of them up to date with OS updates and programs, and only the PBs are having problems.
eric

I tried trashing the Finder prefs already, no luck. creating a new user doesnt work either. its really weird. i can right click on the dock and in any program, but if i right click in a finder window or on the desktop, the Finder crashes and restarts.
i'm going to start uninstalling programs to see if that fixes the problem. i have a feeling that its an improper uninstall of Office X.
this is the only PB with this problem. the other PB that i have set up (still have another 4 in boxes) is having issues with iTunes and a new iPod. i think the problem is the iPod. its also being used by someone who have never used a Mac before. so i think the "problems" might be an inexperienced user. i'm the IT guy at a company of only 15 and trying to move from PC to Mac. and all the growing pains associated with that...
at least our Xsan with 4 HD editing systems is working. amazing how its always the little stuff that trips us up.
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Mac Mini, Intel Core Duo, 1.83ghz, 2gb
With Firefox 3.5 as the only active app, my Finder will crash while dragging files (jpg, pdf, flv) from 1 folder to another. It's not repeatable in any reliable way and doesn't always occur. I'd say 1 time out of 10 - 15 the Finder will crash and restart.
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I've pasted the crash long from a typical event. If anyone could help me decipher where to look I'd be eternally grateful (or at least really happy...). Thanks in advance for the help.
Process: Finder [188]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier: com.apple.finder
Version: 10.6 (10.6)
Build Info: Finder_FE-6650000~6
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [177]
Date/Time: 2009-09-20 16:35:11.053 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000261
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d8780f PrivateQTGetMoviePlayabilityState_priv + 62
1 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d877c1 QTGetMoviePlayabilityState_priv + 33
2 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x9776f1c2 internalDoAction + 9663
3 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x9775e59c _MCIdle + 61
4 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x946d360c CallComponentFunctionCommonWithStorage(char**, ComponentParameters*, long (*)(), unsigned long) + 54
5 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x97759e94 _MCComponentDispatch + 111
6 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x946cbcb6 CallComponentDispatch + 29
7 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d8777f MCIdle + 37
8 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d85669 QTOMovieObject::SendCommand(unsigned long, void const*) + 899
9 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d68d8a DispatchQTMsg(void const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, QTOGenericObject*) + 240
10 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d68bee QTObjectTokenPriv::SendMessageToObject(QTMessagePr iv*, unsigned long) + 178
11 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d68155 QTObjectTokenPriv:ispatchMessage(QTMessagePriv*, void const*, __CFAllocator const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, ComponentMsgParam*, unsigned long, unsigned long) + 1249
12 com.apple.QuickTime 0x91d852e4 QTSendToObject + 98
13 com.apple.QTKit 0x925ac232 QTObjectTokenExecuteCommand + 83
14 com.apple.QTKit 0x9257ec02 -[QTMovie_QuickTime idle] + 303
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c93139 _CFSetApplyFunction_block_invoke1 + 25
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c7858a CFBasicHashApply + 202
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c93101 CFSetApplyFunction + 177
18 com.apple.QTKit 0x925328f0 +[QTMovie_QuickTime idleAllMovies:] + 132
19 com.apple.Foundation 0x9517c9d4 __NSFireTimer + 141
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c90eee __CFRunLoopRun + 6846
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
22 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8eb61 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97
23 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92facfec RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 392
24 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92facda3 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 354
25 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92facc28 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81
26 com.apple.AppKit 0x95a36c95 _DPSNextEvent + 847
27 com.apple.AppKit 0x95a3650a -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 156
28 com.apple.AppKit 0x959f869b -[NSApplication run] + 821
29 com.apple.AppKit 0x959f0735 NSApplicationMain + 574
30 com.apple.finder 0x000061ca 0x1000 + 20938
31 com.apple.finder 0x0000618d 0x1000 + 20877
Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d203a kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d2768 dispatch_mgrinvoke + 215
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1bf9 dispatch_queueinvoke + 183
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d198a dispatch_workerthread2 + 234
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1401 pthreadwqthread + 390
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1246 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ab7da machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968abf47 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8fdbf __CFRunLoopRun + 2447
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c947a4 CFRunLoopRun + 84
5 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x980752a9 TSystemNotificationTask::SystemNotificationTaskPro c(void*) + 643
6 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x9468a9fa PrivateMPEntryPoint + 68
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ca756 select$DARWIN_EXTSN + 10
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93ccf04d __CFSocketManager + 1085
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1092 _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1628 pthreadwqthread + 941
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1246 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1092 _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1628 pthreadwqthread + 941
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1246 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ab83a semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d93c1 pthread_condwait + 1066
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96908208 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 com.apple.finder 0x0002777f 0x1000 + 157567
4 com.apple.finder 0x000276ed 0x1000 + 157421
5 com.apple.finder 0x00006e12 0x1000 + 24082
6 com.apple.finder 0x00006d36 0x1000 + 23862
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 7:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1092 _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1628 pthreadwqthread + 941
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1246 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 8:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1092 _workqkernreturn + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1628 pthreadwqthread + 941
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d1246 start_wqthread + 30
Thread 9:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ab83a semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d93c1 pthread_condwait + 1066
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96908208 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x946ab435 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 242
4 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x946ab173 TSWaitOnSemaphoreCommon + 511
5 ...ickTimeComponents.component 0x97684255 ReadSchedulerThreadEntryPoint + 4698
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 10:
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d93c1 pthread_condwait + 1066
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96908208 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x946ab435 TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 242
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6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 11:
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1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968abf47 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8fdbf __CFRunLoopRun + 2447
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c947a4 CFRunLoopRun + 84
5 com.apple.QTKit 0x92547727 QTCALayerRendererPendingQWorkLoop + 586
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 12:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968ab7da machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968abf47 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8fdbf __CFRunLoopRun + 2447
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c8ed34 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93c947a4 CFRunLoopRun + 84
5 com.apple.QTKit 0x925fbd5b QTVisualContextImageProviderWorkLoop + 114
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8f39 pthreadstart + 345
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x968d8dbe thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xffffffff ebx: 0x91d877df ecx: 0xa0170cac edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x00131b87 esi: 0x008b846c ebp: 0xbfffdfb8 esp: 0xbfffdf70
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x91d8780f cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000261

Hello All:
After reading many of the posts here and elsewhere in the discussions, I thought I'd add my own experience because nothing I've read sounds quite this bizarre. I installed Snow Leopard 3 days ago an everything seemed to be working fine. That lasted about 48 hours. Yesterday, I was copying the first CD of an audiobook, and the program froze. I restarted the computer and at the desktop, there was a Finder crash report (send to Apple). Before I could punch the button, the Finder attempted to relaunch, and another report came up. And another. And another. I'm not sure if the reports went to Apple, but as you'll see, if they did, Apple knows me pretty well by now.
I got the Shutdown panel to come up while this was going on and shut the computer down. When I rebooted, the same thing happened. So I started up from the Snow Leopard Install disk and ran Permission repair and Disk repair. Both showed no problems needing repair. Rebooted. Same thing.
The process was really fast. In the time it took me to shut down, 8 or 10 relaunches and 8 or 10 crash reports. So I started up from Disk Warrior, Snow Leopard version, rebuilt the directory and and checked all the files. No anomalies. Rebooted, and the same thing happened.
Of course, in my zeal to make this horror go away, I had completely forgotten about Safe Boot. So I did that, and went to the Preferences folder to toss com.apple.finder.plist. What a surprise. There were 30 or 40 (or maybe even 50) of those files, all except the most recent one suffixed with a number (example: com.apple.finder.plistx37g8d0 - that's not one of the real numbers). (I'm sure a Unix person could probably quickly explain this, but I thought it was one of the strangest things I've ever seen. It does seem clear that Finder was making a new plist every time it tried to relaunch. But it wasn't deleting any of the old ones.)
So I scrolled through screen after screen, selected and deleted them all. Rebooted and the computer came back. More or less. Now I seem to be experiencing random crashes, especially QuickLook when I'm in the middle of Spotlight. Also, some other crashes with names I don't even recognize because (I'm guessing) I'm not supposed to know they exist. Today those crashes seem to be slightly fewer (but not completely absent). And there were absolutely no crashes for the first 48 hours I used the new operating system. All my third party software was updated before I installed Snow Leopard.
I guess I'm not really asking for advice (but it would be appreciated, none the less). I could reinstall Snow Leopard, but from what I've read in the forums, that often does not seem to help very much. Even though, on this computer, I won't be able to enjoy 64-bit goodness, there are reasons I really don't want to go back to Leopard. First, the new system has things I like - upgrade to Automator, which I use a lot, new Services and others. Second, and more importantly, at least 2 of the third party apps I use a lot have revised upward to 10.6 only. So I guess I'll wait and hope for the best. But I must say, in 20 years of using Macs I've never come across anything quite this strange.
Sorry to bore you all by being so long-winded, but I thought that if anyone else ran into this weird situation, they might enjoy knowing they aren't the only ones.
John

Finder Crashing in 10.6.6. at Startup

finder crashes at startup .. here is my log..
{quote:title=Rp4000's Console Log Crash report:}
Process: Finder [1887]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier: Finder
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [146]
Date/Time: 2011-01-24 01:28:33.800 +0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.6 (10J567)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff825e1201 readimages + 317
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff825f7835 mapimagesnolock + 1266
2 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff825e09a0 map_images + 114
3 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0395f dyld::notifyBatchPartial(dyldimagestates, bool, char const* (*)(dyldimagestates, unsigned int, dyldimageinfo const*)) + 763
4 dyld 0x00007fff5fc04469 dyld::registerImageStateBatchChangeHandler(dyldimagestates, char const* (*)(dyldimagestates, unsigned int, dyldimageinfo const*)) + 442
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff802f20ec dyldregister_image_state_changehandler + 88
6 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff825e091a objcinit + 58
7 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0d500 ImageLoaderMachO::doModInitFunctions(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 228
8 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bcec ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 236
9 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
10 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
11 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
12 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
13 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
14 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bc9d ImageLoader::recursiveInitialization(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&, unsigned int) + 157
15 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0bda6 ImageLoader::runInitializers(ImageLoader::LinkContext const&) + 58
16 dyld 0x00007fff5fc0210e dyld::initializeMainExecutable() + 133
17 dyld 0x00007fff5fc06981 dyld::main(machoheader const*, unsigned long, int, char const**, char const**, char const**) + 2993
18 dyld 0x00007fff5fc016d2 dyldbootstrap::start(macho_header const*, int, char const**, long) + 799
19 dyld 0x00007fff5fc01052 dyldstart + 42
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x04007fff70041570 rbx: 0x0000000000000001 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x00000001005010e0
rdi: 0x0000000100501a30 rsi: 0xffffffffffffffff rbp: 0x00007fff5fbfbfc0 rsp: 0x00007fff5fbfbf10
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000100808000 r10: 0x0000000000008000 r11: 0x0000000000000000
r12: 0x00007fff709f1400 r13: 0x00007fff70041a88 r14: 0x0000000000000003 r15: 0x00007fff80216e60
rip: 0x00007fff825e1201 rfl: 0x0000000000010297 cr2: 0x00007fff700408d0
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Any help would be nice the only way i got it fixed was restarting .. and it went back to normal.. but its another bug inside 10.6.6

Well, if it is working now...
You could check to see what the version of the Finder is as it is not reported in the crash log. The application is here:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder; the version should be 10.6.7. If you suspect a problem caused by updating to 10.6.6, then I suggest downloading and installing the Combo update.
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My finder crashes when I try to open my external hard drive

I have tried to open my external HD and as soon as I double click on the drive icon the finder crashes and goes into a crash loop and won't stop unless Iaunch a program or disc utility. I am running System 10.6.8 and drive checks out in disk utility just fine. I have tried two different enclosures and one is USB and the other is firewire 800 and it does exactly the same. I have tried to turn of icons in the view options and it behaves exactly the same. The drive spins up and mounts just fine and checks out in disk utility.

Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
Safe Mode
Safe Mode - About

Previewing Pictures in Finder crashes my Finder

I've been having some problems lately with Finder suddenly crashing whenever I try to preview images/video in column view. Every time I try, it just crashes finder, and I need to relaunch it. This is also carrying on to safari, for instance when I am trying to upload files to my website (the browse file option to find the files is in column view). When I try to do that, it ends up crashing Safari the same way it crashes the Finder. I hope I can fix this problem soon, as I have not been able to upload anything on my site since then.

The information that you have obtained - particularly that a new user account works okay - certainly points to something in your account being the problem. I am not really sure if there is an easy way to make the settings of your account to be the same as those of the new account. Also, the more I think about this, the less it sounds like a typical preference problem. Usually if there is a bad preference, an app will crash immediately when someone tries to launch it. That is not what you are reporting.
Besides preferences, some items specific to your account could be startup or login items and cache files. I suggest trying some troubleshooting steps to see if the problem could be with some of these.
To test for problems in startup items and login items, I suggest that you try to boot in Safe Mode, which will disable these items. Instructions for that are here: Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode. If your account works okay then, a little more troubleshooting will be needed to find the problem item.
If the Safe Boot does not improve the situation, it would be worth eliminating the possibility of a corrupted cache file somewhere. This can be done by cleaning your user caches. Techniques for this are discussed at
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption. See the discussion regarding cache cleaning.
If none of that works, it would be worth looking for a crash log from Finder. To find that, start the Console app from the Utilities menu. Using the logs icon at the top left, navigate to ~/Library/logs > CrashReporter and then look for something like Finder.crash.log. If such a log exists, it might be pretty big. Rather than posting it here, perhaps you could email it to me and I would look at it to see if I could make any sense out of it.
I wish that I could give you a quick fix for your problem, but the cause is not obvious, so the only approach I know is to keep trying various troubleshooting steps to help isolate the problem.
Hope this helps,
Rich
EMAC G4 1.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Finder crash upon login with one account, better to copy files to new account or use Time Machine backup?

The finder crashes when I login to my old account. Briefly my problems started with iPhoto crashes and eventually to finder crashes. The finder would crash when I would try to transfer picture files from one directory to another. I'd deleted com.apple.iPhoto.plist as well as com.apple.finder.plist but these did not help. The crash is characterized by there being no menu items on the top left, but with dock icons which cannot however be clicked, and I can only resort to a hard reset to get back to the login window. I created a new admin account -- this one works -- but cannot decide whether I should just transfer files from the old account to the new account (as described somewhere in the archived support) or whether I should "go back" in time to when the system was working well (about December 2012 was the last "good" Time Machine backup -- I did a backup in February, but that was when I was already having problems). I am afraid that if I transfer certain files (especially the picture files and iphoto files) to the new account, I might cause the same problem on the new account. Any suggestion as to how to resolve this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Transfer files off the machine to a external storage drive and disconnect, that way you can do anything you like.
TimeMachine may fail to restore if your drive is corrupted and can't be easily verified if your data is truly on it or will restore.
Most commonly used backup methods
..Step by Step to fix your Mac
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
For Snow Leopard Speed Freaks
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Finder crashes when I try to access my Airport disk

I updated my MacBook from Leopard to Snow Leopard yesterday. I have a 1TB WD My Book External hard drive connected via USB to my Airport Extreme Base Station (802.11n). I use time machine to back up to the hard drive and also have additional archive files stored on it.
Everything worked fine with Leopard. However, ever since I installed Snow Leopard, the finder crashes every time I try to access folders within the root of my external hard drive. Once it crashes, the finder will then relaunch itself and continue to crash and relaunch until I close the window.
If I click on a shortcut to a folder located on the hard drive, it works fine. As long as I do not navigate back to the root of the hard drive, I'm able to open any file or folder without the finder crashing.
Originally, when I installed Snow Leopard, I did an update from Leopard. After this problem started, I performed a clean install, but the problem still exists. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Finder crashes occur both on my MacBook Pro (4,1) and MacBook Air (2,1). There is very little in common between the hardware of the two systems except the Santa Rosa processor. One has HDD and the other SSD. One has 6GB in DDR2 memory in two dimms and one 2GB DDR3 soldered. One has an 8600M and one a 9400. One starts a bunch of apps at login and one starts nothing. And so on. Since it happens on different kinds of systems, it's definitely not a hardware problem with certain specific hardware. And I'm pretty sure I saw a report from someone with a MacPro.
I've looked at a lot of finder crash logs. A number of them seem to happen when something (memory or an object) is being freed and an error occurs. This causes an abort and the finder is killed and restarts. Not exactly a "crash". More like controlled flight into the ground. The other cases are probably not catching the error and getting seg faults, so those actually are crashes. Unfortunately, the place this happens seems to be different every time but usually related to finder or AppKit.
I suspect a memory corruption bug somewhere. I've pushed my system by opening and closing
folders, scrolling up and down, and opening and closing subfolders, and once the problem happens, it is usually reproducible for a few minutes (or a few repeats of the action that caused the crash).
Then it will often "magically" start working or a slight variation of behavior, e.g., opening a folder directly vs. using a finder window sidebar alias (or vice-versa) will work.

Weird Finder Crash?

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