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Mac Tip: Fixing The Perpetually Crashing Finder

Started by webomatica · 10 months ago

Got into a rather freaky situation yesterday on the Mac Mini. Essentially, the Finder kept crashing, repeatedly, about a second after launching. The effect is quite disturbing - everything on the desktop vanishes and reappears again, and access to anything Finder-related is only available fo ... Continue reading »

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  • Gotta love that a pesky icon could be the culprit..haha. Are you using crazy animated icons or something?

    I remember my old cure-all for freaky make problems used to be "zapping the pram". I dunno if that is any help these days. Thank goodness my Mac has been mostly stable. I don't think I have Adobe Bridge.
  • No animated icons - I think it was the preview image that Adobe sometimes spits out on its files.

    There's a pretty long list of "voodoo" type things that can be done on the Mac these days - zap the PRAM, repair permissions, boot up from something else and run Disk First Aid - but I have run into situations where Disk Warrior was the only solution - always for some disk directory corruption stuff.

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