TF 1.12.3 on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina) Finder Crash

dtorrey · January 20, 2020, 2:50pm

Upgraded to macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina) and TotalFinder crashes Finder EVERY TIME with the following messages:
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Have crash dump available if desired but don’t want to post here as it is large.
Have submitted crash report to gist.github.com and would appreciate some assistance.

darwin · January 20, 2020, 5:51pm

Hi David,

I just looked at your crash reports and it didn’t really help me understand the issue. Definitely you are not the only one having exactly this crash situation upon startup.

Please reset Finder and TotalFinder into factory defaults:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/darwin/804d06733194f201a595c0dbbf8130ea

_readme.md

To reset TotalFinder and Finder into factory defaults. 

1. in `Terminal.app` run
```bash
curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/darwin/804d06733194f201a595c0dbbf8130ea/raw/reset.sh | bash
``` 
2. and then launch `/Applications/TotalFinder.app` again

Alternatively in step 1 you might want to copy&paste the commands below by hand (skip empty lines and comments)

reset.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e -o pipefail -x

# politely ask Finder to quit
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit"

# (optional) backup settings as plists
mkdir ~/totalfinder-settings-backup
defaults export com.binaryage.totalfinder ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.binaryage.totalfinder.plist

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That should avoid the crash, but it won’t really solve the root cause. Finder seems to be crashing when trying to display Icon View.

dtorrey · January 20, 2020, 8:31pm

Thanks Antonin. This appears to have resolved the issue for the moment; but as you said, does not address the underlying issue.