Comments on: Mac Error 10810

By: Cliff

Cliff — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:33:22 +0000

I’m having the same issue. My iMac is only a few months old and started doing it about a month after I got it. I have to press the power button and shut down once or twice a day. Is Apple aware of this problem and does anyone know if Apple intends to address the problem in an update? Right now I’m running 10.6.4. The suggested fixes I see online (e.g. Cnet) are just too technical for me.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:15:11 +0000

Oh, I forgot, I too have this damned Finder crash issue and the -10810 error-message.

For me, the Spotlight tip doesn’t help, although I can at least access files again that way. The Finder won’t come up again this way, though.

Now, with the most important program unstable on an OS, I might as well switch back to Windows 2000 or XP. I get way faster machines for less money.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:12:18 +0000

I am sooo disappointed with Snow Leopard, I cannot tell you!
I’ve upgraded from my iBook G4 with Tiger because I needed a faster computer that can handle my DNG photo files. So I bought a Mac Mini with SL.

(Boy, I’m disappointed also by the performance of the Mini. My 5 year old PC can handle large photos better than the brand new Mac Mini. I know that the Mini has mobile parts “only”, but my Mini has 1.5 GB more RAM than the PC and the same amount of graphic memory (256 MB, although shared). I thought Apple was the favored tool among creative people and photographers. Screw that!)

The Tiger OS on my iBook — my first experience with Apple — had several things I didn’t like and which I missed coming from Windows. (Being able to choose the programs from a pop up menue rather than having to search for them in the Finder, for example. This has finally been fixed in SL. Although not very elegantly, imo. ) But I managed to work around these things and after a while had a very safe and stable system. Perhaps ten or twenty total hang-up’s within five years with the computer running many hours a day, and hardly ever rebooting. (Once a month, perhaps.)

But since I’ve tried Snow Leopard now for a month, I want my iBook back — if it weren’t so darned slow. (Can’t even watch John Stewart or Colbert Nation videos in the browser anymore. With 1.5 GB of RAM. Sheeesh!)

To me, SL is a step back. Shame on you, Apple.

By: C Mix

C Mix — Sun, 02 May 2010 00:09:37 +0000

I tried the rebuild a few weeks ago, plus I downloaded Onyx and ran that. Everything was great until a few weeks later (today). I looked at my syslog, and the thing that is causing problems seems to be:
com.apple.coreservices.uiagent or com.apple.launchd.peruser.501 whatever that means. I don’t know tech language, but am generally good with computers.

What does this mean that is launching? I also use Microsoft Intellipoint but don’t see that being mentioned in my syslog. I guess I am not sure what line to look at to see what is causing the problem. I don’t see any identifiable programs.

By: DB Whisperer

DB Whisperer — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:18:26 +0000

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

By: Testie

Testie — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:47:14 +0000

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.

By: Claudio

Claudio — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:46:59 +0000

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…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:30:32 +0000

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

By: Ian Cull

Ian Cull — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:02:30 +0000

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.

By: Steinar

Steinar — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:29:27 +0000

Logging out and back in again works for me.

By: Patrick McMahon

Patrick McMahon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:21:15 +0000

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.