My wife control-clicked an image in an email to save to disk.
Multiple finders were launching.
After restarting, no icons appeared on the desktop, the finder menu bar
was flashing on and off every 2 seconds, we could not click on the finder menu bar, the mouse works ok, all items in the dock work ok except the finder item.
When we control click on the finder item in the dock, the message "Finder not running" shows up.
Help, we have searched for 2 days and don't know what to do,
ran fsck, no problems
ran Disk Utility from the Installation CD, ran repair permissions and repair disk, no problems
I have multiple user accounts. Only one is affected by this problem.
I created a new user account. No problems with this one.
I logged in as myself rather than the damaged account,
opened a terminal window, logged in as the damaged user in terminal,
and deleted the com.apple.finder.plist file from her /users/username/library/preferences folder.
Now the finder menu bar flashes much more quickly and a finder window showing the hard drive and network icons shows every 10 or 15 seconds but just for 1/2 second or so, not long enough to click on it.
When checking the crash logs while logged in as myself or "test" user, nothing to report. I will log in as "problem" user and check and report back.
Here is the dump from the newest finder crash log:
Date/Time: 2005-02-16 12:57:36 -0500
OS Version: 10.2.8 (Build 6S90)
Host: Kwi-Andersons-Computer.local.
Command: Finder
PID: 492
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x06084538
Thread 0 Crashed:
#0 0x91942e5c in DoLigatureSubtable
#1 0x919422fc in ProcessMortGrouping
#2 0x91937ff8 in HandleMorph
#3 0x9193abb0 in ApplyMorph
#4 0x91933500 in _eLLCLayoutText
#5 0x919391f4 in LLCLayoutText
#6 0x91a6e7f4 in _Z12LayoutGlyphsP14ATSGlyphVectorP23ATSLineLayoutL ineParamslP14AttributeGroup
#7 0x91a65de8 in _Z16ATSULayoutGlyphsP21TATSUGlyphRecordArrayP23ATS LineLayoutLineParamslP7ATSUTabmP9CGContext
#8 0x91a75b7c in _ZN15TTextLineLayout28ConstructAndLayoutGlyphArray EP21TATSUGlyphRecordArrayP23ATSLineLayoutLineParam sP15TLayoutControlsl
#9 0x91a74604 in _ZN15TTextLineLayout15BatchBreakLinesEmmlPm
#10 0x91a83ae4 in ATSUBatchBreakLines
#11 0x969c67ac in _ZN15TATSUTextLayout13LayoutToWidthEfh
#12 0x969bcd64 in _ZN15TATSUTextLayout12VerifyLayoutEfh
#13 0x969b175c in _ZN15TATSUTextLayout13GetDimensionsEhmsRK7CGPointP S0_Pf
#14 0x969b5fb4 in _ZN10DataEngine22GetThemeTextDimensionsEtRK15TThem eDrawStatePK10__CFStringhmsfP20OpaqueThemeTextCach eRK7CGPointPS8_Pf
#15 0x969b96a0 in HIThemeGetTextDimensions
#16 0x969dcbb8 in _GetThemeTextDimensionsWithOptions
#17 0x000083ac in 0x83ac
#18 0x0000c7a8 in 0xc7a8
#19 0x0000d320 in 0xd320
#20 0x0003b61c in 0x3b61c
#21 0x000eb8d4 in 0xeb8d4
#22 0x0001b574 in 0x1b574
#23 0x0003afc0 in 0x3afc0
#24 0x0001e840 in 0x1e840
#25 0x000393d4 in 0x393d4
#26 0x0000c230 in 0xc230
#27 0x0002e8c8 in 0x2e8c8
#28 0x0001392c in 0x1392c
#29 0x00013a34 in 0x13a34
#30 0x00010c44 in 0x10c44
#31 0x00004e60 in 0x4e60
#32 0x000049e4 in 0x49e4
#33 0x0000946c in 0x946c
#34 0x00028478 in 0x28478
#35 0x000274fc in 0x274fc
#36 0x0002737c in 0x2737c
Well, the system install doesn't appear to be corrupted since it only affects the one account. If deleting the Finder's preferences doesn't help, it must be another one of the user's preference files that are corrupted, though I wasn't aware that the Finder used any additional plist files.
Is it possible to just create a new account and move all of the user's files over (Documents, Music, Movies, etc)? Sorry that I can't be of more help.
Thanks for letting me know that the main system is ok!
I have the day off today and will pour through some unix admin manuals as well as try to replace the user's preferences 1 at a time till I get somewhere.
Finder not running, flashing finder menu bar.
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