twomacgolfers
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I am having a crashing Finder problem on a G4 AGP.
OS 10.4.5
This afternoon it started having the Finder cycle through crashing, restarting, about every second. It's impossible to do anything in the Finder. I can launch apps via the Dock or LaunchBar. I can't access or open folders or hard disks.
Rebooting in a different user clears the problem. So problem is with main user account apparently. However, none of the other users have Admin access (so I just created a new user "test" with Admin privileges).
After reading through posts here and other places this is what I've done, none of which has eliminated the problem:
I have rebooted in verbose mode (command line) or used Terminal to
- move all the Desktop files to a new folder in the Documents folder
- moved the Finder prefs file (renamed) com.apple.finder.plist to com.apple.finder.old.plist. I do not have a pref file com.apple.sidebarlists.plist (why?)
-rebuilt the Finder Prefs with Disk Utility
-Used DiskWarrior to rebuild the boot disk
- disconnected the Firewire harddrive
- unmounted the other 2 internal harddrives (drag icon to eject)
- disabled all login items
The console.log reports that :Finder crashed
I can try and get to the log file and post the crash log if that would be helpful.
I need to get this computer back up tonight for my wife to work on !!!
OS 10.4.5
This afternoon it started having the Finder cycle through crashing, restarting, about every second. It's impossible to do anything in the Finder. I can launch apps via the Dock or LaunchBar. I can't access or open folders or hard disks.
Rebooting in a different user clears the problem. So problem is with main user account apparently. However, none of the other users have Admin access (so I just created a new user "test" with Admin privileges).
After reading through posts here and other places this is what I've done, none of which has eliminated the problem:
I have rebooted in verbose mode (command line) or used Terminal to
- move all the Desktop files to a new folder in the Documents folder
- moved the Finder prefs file (renamed) com.apple.finder.plist to com.apple.finder.old.plist. I do not have a pref file com.apple.sidebarlists.plist (why?)
-rebuilt the Finder Prefs with Disk Utility
-Used DiskWarrior to rebuild the boot disk
- disconnected the Firewire harddrive
- unmounted the other 2 internal harddrives (drag icon to eject)
- disabled all login items
The console.log reports that :Finder crashed
I can try and get to the log file and post the crash log if that would be helpful.
I need to get this computer back up tonight for my wife to work on !!!