Finder keeps crashing :(
Finder likes to crash when going in to certain folders. It's getting very annoying! Here's what Console says: Any ideas? I think it may be do to several frameworks having the wrong permissions. I can't use Disk Utility because it says…
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- @BeSweeet Published 2009-08-22
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Finder likes to crash when going in to certain folders. It's getting very annoying! Here's what Console says:
Any ideas? I think it may be do to several frameworks having the wrong permissions. I can't use Disk Utility because it says something about installation. I can't use OnyX because it won't run on 10.6.
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I don't have a 8GB thumb drive.
I'll reinstall later so see if it happens to fix any of these problems, but after I backup my kext files . Don't wanna spend 8 hours working on this stuff just for audio and PS/2.
I reinstalled SL a few days ago and I havn't had a crash yet.
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Does the error include the word "Packages" ?
If so, reinstall SL using my guide (link in my signature) to avoid permission issues.
Try to run kextutility as fast as you can to repair the permisions and rebuilt mkext.