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Snow Leopard has brought an annoying bug (still available in 10.6.6). A number of people are having a problem where the Finder will hang or crash, followed by a Finder error message saying “The application Finder.app can’t be opened. -10810″. The general agreement among affected users seems to be that this is spurred mainly when accessing external drives, but there could be a few other related reasons.
Sometimes, when dealing with external hard drives or USB sticks, Finder crashes and does not automatically reopen. Trying to click on the Finder icon in the Dock does not help at all! It just causes a laconic message box that says: “The application Finder can’t be opened (-10810)”. Unless you want to logout and login back (or restart).
Here solutions:
- Kill Finder and Dock processes.
In terminal, run the following command to reset these applications:
sudo killall Finder Dock - Rerun Finder from terminal
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder & disown - Unmount disks
If you only have one internal hard drive, use the following command to unmount all except for that drive
sudo umount -Af
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May 22nd, 2011 at 3:42 PM
Didn’t work for me.
The bug is caused in my case very likely due to attempts to do several transfers at once to/from a Drobo iSCSI disk array.
June 4th, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Thsnks for all those great info. How to do all this if terminal in not docked? Is ther a way to launch it? Or force it to go tomthe dock? I still have the 10810 error when i try to launch finder, but all other apps in the dock work well.
July 8th, 2011 at 5:04 PM
OS X 10.6.8 …
I’m having this issue and connected to multiple SMB shares using SMB and ADmitMac CIFS. It seems to happen when I sleep the computer and come back the next morning.
I’ll try the commands above next time.
July 14th, 2011 at 7:33 PM
THANK YOU!!!!!!
This problem has been annoying me for some time. It occurs when I try to shutdown after system wakes from sleeping.
October 20th, 2011 at 9:42 PM
I have a 22″ Imac and recently my finder crashes, the dock stays on, the screen turns grey and all the desktop files disappear, then reappear again. Anyone kknow what causes this. Last time it happened I was scrolling thru ‘All images’ files, the ‘ all images’ file window quit unexpectedly. Then I had the grey screen but th dock was there all the time, then all the desktop files came back on the screen. MAC OS 10.6.8 what is the problem???? It shows up inthe terminal console list as ‘Finder crash’ with the date.
November 10th, 2011 at 8:35 PM
I was very hopeful to upgrade all my macs to Lion when it was released, however my older model mac mini ran rather slow on Lion so I decided to return it back to SL. Ever since, I’ve been getting this error, but I feel like it has something to do with my new external hard drive I have it connected to. I’ve always had a firewire external hooked to it, but now that I’ve put this usb one ALSO, I dont know if maybe it’s too much for the mac to handle.
When I get this error though, it locks my whole drive. I can’t open itunes because I guess it’s trying to retrieve the itunes library files from the drive but it can’t be accessed. ????
March 7th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
THANKS! I’ve been having that very issue when trying to transfer large files from my Lacie Big Network Drive, connected via SMB through USB.
This at least saves me from having to restart every time!
It was simple enough to access Terminal using Spotlight, after the Finder had crashed.
March 17th, 2012 at 3:14 AM
Thanks. Worked immediately – great stuff!