OS X 10.4.11 kicking out of applications to the finder

lajay · #1 February 3rd, 2009, 07:09 PM

I'm on a dual 800MHz G4 w/1GB Ram. I only use this cpu for basic internet and email. Monday I booted it up and it said a new version of Quicktime is available. I don't remember what version it said, but I told the prompt to go ahead and automatically update it. I did the update and restarted the cpu. Once it was restarted, I opened up iChat, Mail, Safari etc. I was in my mail program writing an email and all of a sudden it kicked me out to the finder level. Kinda like I took the mouse and clicked off the mail screen onto the desktop. So, I clicked back onto mail and proceeded. Next I was on the internet in safari and it did the same thing to me. It's so annoying b/c it does it when I'm in the middle of writing, it doesn't care, it just acts as if I'm clicking on the desktop....by the way it'll do it even when I'm not running any other applications. I'll be sitting there looking at the desktop, (no applications running) and all of a sudden all the icons and such disappear from my desktop for a quick second and then come back and acts as if everything's ok.
I've tried to fix it by the following:
Booted in safe mode - no change
Ran diskwarrior 3 times - no change
Restarted w/apple/option/o/f held down. reset-nvram set-defaults reset-all
Repaired permissions - no change
Anyhow, while even writing this to the forum, it happened at least six times.

Oh what to do?!?? Anyone w/help would greatly be appreciated. And by the way it has Quicktime 7.6 installed. There are no software updates available either. This is the weirdest thing! So annoying!
Thanks!
Jason

goace · #2 February 4th, 2009, 07:28 AM

Exactly the same thing is happening to me!!!
Anyone knows how to fix this?

kisuke3 · #3 February 4th, 2009, 09:20 AM

so it only happened after doing the update? frankly i am not sure what causes this but you can try to A&I to isolate the issue. Update everything but not QT

karden · #4 February 4th, 2009, 09:31 AM

so is it the QT problem? my OS occurs exactly the same with yours! i also did the QT updated....
what is the solution... ?
it even turn off my finder windows when i was checking my files.....

lajay · #5 February 4th, 2009, 11:20 AM

I think it's related to the Quicktime update..that's the only thing different. It really sucks! I can't figure this out! No one has given me any ideas...you're the only person to even reply!

lajay · #6 February 4th, 2009, 11:22 AM

Everything is updated on my cpu. Nothing needs to be updated. This is really a bummer. See it even happened while I was writing this! Geez!

**fryke** · #7 February 4th, 2009, 11:59 AM

Basically, it means the Finder is unexpectedly quitting. Go to /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and look at the crash logs for the Finder. Maybe something strange shows up. Any APE/haxies installed? Remove those _completely_ and test whether the problem still occurs.

lajay · #8 February 4th, 2009, 01:45 PM

Yes, my finder is definitely crashing! What are APE/haxies? Where do I find those? Thanks!