Finder Crashes When Disk Image Mounted

dmetzcher

dmetzcher

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This just started happening an hour ago...
When I mount a disk image, the Finder crashes. It doesn't crash right when the disk image is mounted. It crashes when the Finder window displaying the disk images contents opens. I never see the contents of the disk image, because the Finder crashes too suddenly. After the crash, everything is fine, except that, when I try to open the mounted disk image volume, the Finder crashes again. This happens over and over, until I mount the disk image.

I have done the following:
1. Checked the Desktop for weird file names. None. I don't name things weirdly.
2. Deleted the com.apple.finder.plist file.
3. Repaired permissions. Got one message that a permission was corrected. Ran fine the second time. However, I am no longer getting the "We are using special permissions..." messages that I always used to get.

Nother has corrected this. This does not happen when I log into another administrator account on the same machine.

If anyone can help me out, I'd REALLY appreciate it. Thanks!

(Running OS X 10.4.6 on an iBook G4 12" 1.2GHz machine with 768MB RAM.)
 
Just noticed something else...
I have a FireWire drive that contains several folders. One of them, called "Software Installers", contains all the disk images that I have downloaded that I want to save, including software that I have a license for. When I open the mounted volume, everything is fine. When I browse to the "Software Installers" directory, the Finder crashes.

This is really getting weird.
 
I shouldn't have to re-install the OS if this is only happening on my own user account, should I?. The most I figured I'd have to do is create a new user account, but I just don't want to have to go through creating a new user account, unless I have to do that. If I have to re-install the OS, that's fine, though it will be a pain, but I can't imagine that I have to go through all that for this.

By the way, I remembered that today, I unplugged my FireWire drive without ejecting the volume on it. I've done this a few times in the past (but not often at all).

Something else...Not sure if this has something to do with it. QuickSilver started acting weird last night, and I noticed that, if I didn't have the FireWire drive connected, it wouldn't crash. If I did, it would. Moving the folder that has the issue "Software Installers" to another FireWire drive doesn't help though, even if I disconnect the other drive, so I don't think this folder was causing the issue with QuickSilver.

I don't know...
Do I really have to re-install the OS?
 
Just found something else...
This might have nothing at all to do with the disk images, in fact, I doubt it does now...
I have the OS X Tiger disk mounted on my Desktop. Opening it in a Finder window crashes the Finder. So, this looks like some crash that is selective, and depends on certain directories being opened in the Finder. It's the same directories. This doesn't happen on the other user account. Is there not a plist file that can be gotten to and killed so that this stops happening?
 
it sound after you have posted what you said. you may have massed up one of those hinned files on the other hard drive you posted about. this has happened on my iPod mini from time to time. I use disk warorer on it and it will fix what going on. I know Apple's Disk tool will not fix this with out wipeing out my iPod and my back up OS X in it.
 
camgangrel21 said:
it sound after you have posted what you said. you may have massed up one of those hinned files on the other hard drive you posted about. this has happened on my iPod mini from time to time. I use disk warorer on it and it will fix what going on. I know Apple's Disk tool will not fix this with out wipeing out my iPod and my back up OS X in it.
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If something got messed up on the external FireWire drive, why would it only affect my user account, and not the other account that I created? I can use that account to get to the folders that are crashing my regular user account. Also, what hidden files on the hidden files would there be on the external drive that couldn't just be deleted without issue. It's not just the external drive, either. It's certain folders on my internal hard drive.

I don't think that any hidden files are causing this. It has to be something with my user account somewhere, else it would be affecting the other user accounts as well.
 
Will I know that with my mini and my USB Hard drive there is stuff that OS X put on that drive. that you can not see even with tremal. Try running any the apps that are made to run on linux under X11, and then do a open file and point to you hard drive. You will find files there that will start with a ".****" you fill in the ***. now on my mini when I look at it or the USB drive there are file that I have no way of know what they do. Other then to say that they have something to do with the user that mounts that dive to do work on them. Now the hell if know if those files there or not when unmounting the drives. I only know that if one of those files get massed up some how then that user can't get in to that drive. I have never had the finder just stop working, but I have had it not see the drive on that acount but under root it would see and mount. I have had the drive cuse my mac not to want to startup. but when taken off the mac was fine. Do see my point now. your asking as if I had programed OS X. Hell I only wished. then I could let everone here in this form know why there macs are acting the way they are.

As for the other files on you main drive would have to have you repared you permachen? sorry about that misselling. I would as say run disk utity from the OS install disk. you may have bad block of data somewhere that is not keeping you system from booting but cuse you troulbes.
If that don't work try Diskwarrior it will sometimes find stuff that Apples Disk will not found.
 
I've already repaired permissions. I understand your point about the external drive, but that drive isn't the only place where these errors are occurring. I've run AppleJack in single user mode (not that that was going to help anything), and repaired the disk since this all started. I don't have Disk Warrior, and I'm not going to buy it just to hope that it will work here. I'd rather just blow away my user account, if need be, and create a new one.
 
A new account would have resolved this, but I decided to just reinstall the OS. There was some stuff that I didn't feel like going through the trouble of removing, and a fresh start is nice. The machine is a little faster now, so it worked out.
 
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