[X4U] Finder not responding (semi resolved)

[Jens Selvig]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I thought I would let the list know that my expert MAC friend has  
> gotten my system back in running order (at least for now).
>
> My friend came over and these are the steps he did to "fix" the  
> problem.
>
> 1. Created New User with the same privileges as I have.
>
> 2. Logged in as a new user no problem.
>
> 3. He deleted the PLIST datasets for the FINDER (and a few other).
>
> 4. Logged out and I logged in.
>
> 5. Problem disappeared .
>
> We had run TT4 and disk warrior (with lots of side issues of  
> versioning problems) neither spotted the problem PLISTs.
>
> Back and running no need to archive and re-install. Rather simple.  
> The trick was (IMO) to figure out the PLIST for the finder was  
> corrupt (never mind that neither disk utility pointed at any issues  
> whatsoever).
>
> Of course the bigger issue is how it became corrupted in the first  
> place.
>
> Ed


I would be shocked if any of the hard drive tools like TechTool or  
Disk Warrior would  find a corrupted plist. The plist it self, as a  
file is not damaged, it is the data inside the file that is damaged.

Jens

Jens Selvig
...Lost in Montana...