TotalFinder closes after a few minutes

Running macOS 10.13.5 Total Finder 1.10.10 launches and works fine but seemingly only for a few minutes when it silently closes down - no error or message of any sort - it simply disappears. Re-launching works fine for another few minutes - while it is running all features seem to work as advertised. Unfortunately I cannot quantify the exact period[s] it takes to fail.

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Please look for a crash report. This sounds like Finder.app is crashing and being silently restarted by the system.

The crash reports are located in your ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports, look for files with Finder_ prefix.

Requested crash log (I cut off the middle loaded libs portion b/c it was too long to post):

Process: TotalFinderCrashWatcher [881]
Path: /Applications/TotalFinder.app/Contents/Resources/TotalFinder.bundle/Contents/Resources/TotalFinderCrashWatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/TotalFinderCrashWatcher
Identifier: TotalFinderCrashWatcher
Version: 1.10.10 (1.10.10)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: TotalFinderCrashWatcher [881]
User ID: 501

Date/Time: 2018-06-03 17:46:26.614 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.13.4 (17E202)
Report Version: 12
Anonymous UUID: A07CF463-93AE-2237-8F9D-55B738E1D652

Sleep/Wake UUID: E2C14599-6E4D-42FB-9F25-6A5BC9038C30

Time Awake Since Boot: 72000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 1400 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000020
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [0]

VM Regions Near 0x20:
–>
__TEXT 0000000106491000-000000010649b000 [ 40K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /Applications/TotalFinder.app/Contents/Resources/TotalFinder.bundle/Contents/Resources/TotalFinderCrashWatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/TotalFinderCrashWatcher

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff66922184 objc_release + 36
1 com.binaryage.totalfinder.crashwatcher 0x0000000106496a44 0x106491000 + 23108
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f246f2c CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER + 12
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f246dfa _CFXRegistrationPost + 458
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f246b31 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 225
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f2048d0 -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1664
6 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f203a07 _CFXNotificationPost + 599
7 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff413068c7 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 66
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3c9adddc -[NSApplication terminate:] + 1596
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3cb8f008 -[NSApplication _terminateFromSender:askIfShouldTerminate:saveWindows:] + 289
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3cb8ee6d __52-[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEQuit]_block_invoke + 46
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3cbf3c01 ___NSMainRunLoopPerformBlock_block_invoke + 25
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f24f8cc CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_BLOCK + 12
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f2322a3 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 275
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f23192e __CFRunLoopRun + 1278
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f2311a3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 483
16 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff3e519d96 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 286
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff3e519a0f ReceiveNextEventCommon + 366
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff3e519884 _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 64
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3c7cca73 _DPSNextEvent + 2085
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3cf62e34 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 3044
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3c7c1885 -[NSApplication run] + 764
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3c790a72 NSApplicationMain + 804
23 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff67547015 start + 1

Thread 1:: com.apple.NSEventThread
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff6768e20a mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff6768d724 mach_msg + 60
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f2327d5 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 341
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f231b27 __CFRunLoopRun + 1783
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff3f2311a3 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 483
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff3c909fc4 _NSEventThread + 184
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6785f661 _pthread_body + 340
7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6785f50d _pthread_start + 377
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6785ebf9 thread_start + 13

Thread 2:
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff6785ebdc start_wqthread + 0
1 ??? 0x000070000a493b10 0 + 123145474882320

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x0000000000000000 rbx: 0x00007fafdc50f280 rcx: 0x00007fff9943d3e0 rdx: 0x00007fff66943df8
rdi: 0x00007fafdc50f280 rsi: 0x00007fff9934a178 rbp: 0x00007ffee976c6c0 rsp: 0x00007ffee976c6c0
r8: 0x00007fff994468a0 r9: 0x0000000000000040 r10: 0x00007ffee976eba0 r11: 0x00007fff3f1ba2f0
r12: 0x000060000001e520 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x000060c0000546d0 r15: 0x000060c0000546d0
rip: 0x00007fff66922184 rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x0000000000000020

Logical CPU: 0
Error Code: 0x00000004
Trap Number: 14

Binary Images:
0x106491000 - 0x10649afff +com.binaryage.totalfinder.crashwatcher (1.10.10 - 1.10.10) /Applications/TotalFinder.app/Contents/Resources/TotalFinder.bundle/Contents/Resources/TotalFinderCrashWatcher.app/Contents/MacOS/TotalFinderCrashWatcher
0x11451b000 - 0x1145659df dyld (551.3) /usr/lib/dyld
0x7fff3b726000 - 0x7fff3b726fff com.apple.Accelerate (1.11 - Accelerate 1.11) <8632A9C5-19EA-3FD7-A44D-80765CC9C540> /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Accelerate
0x7fff3b727000 - 0x7fff3b73dfef libCGInterfaces.dylib (417.2)

External Modification Summary:
Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
task_for_pid: 286
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by this process:
task_for_pid: 0
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0
Calls made by all processes on this machine:
task_for_pid: 132664
thread_create: 0
thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=326.5M resident=0K(0%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=326.5M(100%)
Writable regions: Total=129.6M written=0K(0%) resident=0K(0%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=129.6M(100%)

                            VIRTUAL   REGION 

REGION TYPE SIZE COUNT (non-coalesced)
=========== ======= =======
Activity Tracing 256K 2
CoreGraphics 8K 2
CoreUI image file 176K 4
Foundation 4K 2
Kernel Alloc Once 8K 2
MALLOC 119.9M 28
MALLOC guard page 48K 13
Memory Tag 242 12K 2
STACK GUARD 56.0M 4
Stack 9232K 4
VM_ALLOCATE 92K 11
__DATA 21.4M 213
__FONT_DATA 4K 2
__LINKEDIT 192.5M 4
__TEXT 134.0M 218
__UNICODE 560K 2
mapped file 34.3M 10
shared memory 596K 7
=========== ======= =======
TOTAL 568.8M 512