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Mac Error 10810

February 9th, 2010 - Mac OS X, Troubleshooting

The application Finder.app can’t be opened. -10810

I ran into the unpleasant 10810 error code recently and couldn’t find any workaround without a reboot. From what I’ve gathered by searching around on the web, Error 10810 occurs when the Launch Services framework has some sort of meltdown, causing the Mac OS X Kernel to run out of available threads for anymore processes to launch. In the event that some process has got errant and is in some infinite loop of launching and hoarding threads, this will cause a rather lovely barrage of error dialog boxes (see screenshot below).

If you start getting Error 10810, you likely won’t be able to launch any other application (Finder included) and so the best thing you can do is to reboot your Mac. If you are continuously plagued by this error, then you may be using some buggy software that is launching itself into a gazillion threads causing Mac OS X to freak out.

If anyone has additional information or troubleshooting tips regarding this error, feel free to chime in.

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Comments: 7

Comment from Patrick McMahon
Time: February 9, 2010, 5:21 pm

I run into this every so often in Snow Leopard, to the point where I have to perform a hard restart. I noticed, on accident, yesterday that if I kick off Spotlight via Command+Space, and click on Show All, it will sometimes kick the Finder back into motion and restore my desktop icons, etc.

Comment from Steinar
Time: February 9, 2010, 7:29 pm

Logging out and back in again works for me.

Comment from Ian Cull
Time: February 9, 2010, 8:02 pm

Coincidence! This happened to me tonight, first time … I’ll try logging out/in, better than reboot (plus it didn’t shut down, I had to force off/on).
Seemed to be LogMeIn that took it down, so Safari. Odd.

Comment from Dave
Time: February 9, 2010, 11:30 pm

If you use Springy, try removing it from the auto-start list.

Comment from Claudio
Time: February 10, 2010, 5:46 am

My system started showing this behaviour after installing Forklift… I have had other Finder instability issues with older versions of Forklift. It is the last time that I will use such an application on OS X…

My recommendation, do not install any applications that “replaces” 0r “augments” the Finder…or Finder functionality.

Time for a clean wipe and install…

Comment from Testie
Time: February 12, 2010, 6:47 am

I had the same Problem besause I pasted the finder on my desktop. I brought it back with Path Finder and then I repairt everysthink with the disk-utility.

Comment from DB Whisperer
Time: February 12, 2010, 7:18 am

You can rebuild the launch services database with Cocktail, Onyx, or other utilities. Alternatively, here’s an AppleScript that can be saved as a script and launched from the Script menu, or saved as an application and launched from anywhere.

(*
rebuildLaunchServicesDB.scpt
Locates the lsregister command regardless of OS version, then tells it to rebuild the Launch Services Database for all applications in the canonical Applications folder
Paul Henegan
bleulyon@mac.com
20.Aug.2008
*)

set theCommand to (do shell script “locate lsregister”)
set theArguments to ” -kill -r -f -domain local -domain system -domain user”
set thePath to ” /Applications”–edit this as needed
set theScript to theCommand & theArguments & thePath
do shell script theScript

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