# TotalFinder hangs (or crashes) Finder at startup

**URL:** <https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-hangs-or-crashes-finder-at-startup/1986>\
**Category:** TotalFinder\
**Created:** [May 21, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-hangs-or-crashes-finder-at-startup/1986 "2014-05-21T20:34:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/user_avatar/discuss.binaryage.com/darwin/32/2275_2.png) [@darwin](https://discuss.binaryage.com/u/darwin)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.binaryage.com/t/totalfinder-hangs-or-crashes-finder-at-startup/1986/36 "2014-07-02T18:09:08Z")

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Could you please do some tests on your affected machine?

If the issue is 100% reproducible and caused by TotalFinder’s code, we could try to disable individual TotalFinder pieces one by one to isolate binary causing the trouble. It could be that TotalFinder corrupts some regions of Finder memory and that is causing the problems.

Please try these commands in Terminal.app, Finder restart is needed after each of them, use no to disable their effect again:

First try to disable all plugins:

```
defaults write com.apple.finder TotalFinderAllPluginsDisabled -bool yes

```

Then try to disable them one by one:

```
defaults write com.apple.finder TotalFinder[PLUGIN]Disabled -bool yes

```

Replace [PLUGIN] with these one by one:

Tabs  
ColorfulSidebar  
ColumnViewAutoWidth  
CopyPathMenu  
CutAndPaste  
DockProgressBar  
FoldersOnTop  
Labels  
NoDesktopDots  
SystemFiles  
Visor

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