Finder problems

[bradleyjschultz]

At restart my Mac keeps relaunching the finder I think. The apple menu bar at the top comes down then back up repeatedly non stop. And no access to anything on the desktop, i can see only my desktop image i had choosen. The Dock is there but can't access anything. Neep Help Please.

 

[Ric]

Hi Bradley and Welcome...

have you tried anything already...save me giving you the same advice ?

What version of OS X are you running ?

regards

Ric

 

[Ric]

A few things to try...

If you haven't tried them yet...

1. Start up from your System Software CD/DVD, run Disk Utility from it.

(Restart holding down the c key)


2. Throw this file away "com.apple.finder.plist" it's in Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences then restart


3. Look in Finder crash log to see the cause of crashes. It is in Users/yourusername/Library/Logs/CrashReporter

(post it here, if you're not sure what it means)

4. We'll wait to see if we need a 4...

regards

Ric

 

[bradleyjschultz]

I am running 10.4.3. Thank you for all your help. But i just fixed it before i tried your suggestions. I will keep yours handy for the future if need be. I ended up restarting into safeboot mode and found a strange jpg file on my desktop that was about a million characters long. It was a jpg file from the Costco photo center website, one of my photos, that i dragged to my desktop just curious to see the resolution in photoshop. That is when all hell broke loose. Just curious do you know how or why that happened? Oh I just deleted the bad jpg file in safeboot mode and restarted the computer. Everything fine now.

Thanks again

brad

 

[Ric]

Hi Brad,

glad you got it working ok !

SafeBoot was number 4 ! ;-)

regards

Ric