TotalFinder hangs (or crashes) Finder at startup

Any update on this yosemite problem?
really miss using Totalfinder
thanks

Since we have no reaction whatsoever from developer, try this, itā€™s a freeware, works fine on all Macs and has MORE functionalities than TotalFinder:

XtraFinder

Enjoy!

Annoying, but the problem is that this is happening on a small number of machines and I wasnā€™t able to reproduce it myself. I asked for help, offered financial bounty, but nobody was able to isolate the issue so far. Bummer!

It was confirmed that this setting fixes the issue for affected users:

What the heck is that?
I thought 10.10.2 was the actuel OS X version.

Getting tired (sick) of this, I switched to XtraFinder.

Please, let me know when problem is definitely solved.

About a year ago I reported a fix for this same issue and mistyped a directory reference:

~/Library/Application Support/TotalFinder

actually did exist for me with several previous versions of support files. I notice it doesnā€™t get recreated again so it must have been a legacy thing.

This issue arose for me again on Yosemite and thanks to this defaults line I am back in business, so itā€™s obviously something in my memory of tabs that has got corrupted. Perhaps an option key while starting up could override tabstaterestore? Then a pref to restore them to default alone?

Iā€™ve done this on my other mac to see if it fixes another issue which is some of my tabs continually reloading scrolled far far to the right to a black window and having to always scroll back to the beginning to use. To soon to tell yet.

Thanks!

Hi Darwin,

You mean open Terminal and type

com.apple.finder TotalFinderDontRestoreTabsState

then enter?

Sorry for my stupid question because I am not really good at it. I just want to solve the problem and use back Total Finder

@ryori Please open Terminal, paste there the whole line from this page, hit enter. After then use CMD+OPT+ESC to kill Finder.app and start TotalFinder.app again.

Darwin, it helps. Thank you so much.

This problem is NOT resolved on 10.10.2 (Yosemite) using:

defaults write com.apple.finder TotalFinderDontRestoreTabsState -bool yes

Iā€™m happy to try any testing but this appears to be a problem on all Yosemite machines judging from the ā€œyes it worksā€ and ā€œmy version is 10.9.xā€ yet NO ONE has confirmed that this works on 10.10.2.

FYI for those using TotalFinder and Yosemite 10.10.2. I found for some odd reason that starting TotalFinder from Launcher works. What Iā€™ve done is put a shortcut on the dock and just click that after logging in for now until this is resolved. Painful but works.

I am still on OS 10.8.5 and was getting the hang issue but disabling tabs being restored via the Terminal appears to work. Thank you.

I have been using total finder for 2 years, but was told by my bosses at work to take it off my mac pro as it causes my finder to crash when working with the network here at work. We are a film and animation company and work of a server.

I previously used the free xtra finder, and bought TotalFinder because it seemed more reliable - but itā€™s just not reliable enough in a work situation.

I think Iā€™d happily pay double the cost for a simplified version of the app that was very stable. I basically just like the colour labels and the tabs, and the stuff that makes it work like windows explorer (copy and paste file paths) and copy, cut paste.

For me itā€™s not about loads of features. Iā€™d prefer less - but super-stability is key.

Let me know if you can help. Iā€™d buy it again.

matthew@matthewroberts.co

I have just released a new version, which could address this startup issue:
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/beta-changes#1.6.18

It would be great if you could test it before I release it to everybody.

Still not working. Cannot use Visor at all.

I am seeing the same issue, and they got so bad on my MBA and MBP that I had would force quit TotalFinder on startup if I didnā€™t have 15 minutes to get coffee or not use my computer. Things seem better under 1.6.18 but there are definitely still major performance issues.

Iā€™ve also see some big IO issues where TotalFinder seems to get in the way or low level tasks.

Still not working, i tried everything, uninstalling first, restarting finder, nothing works, totalfinder doesnā€™t launch anymore ;(
so frustrating

running 10.10.3
hereā€™s the crash log

PlugIn Path: /Library/ScriptingAdditions/TotalFinder.osax/Contents/Resources/TotalFinder.bundle/Contents/PlugIns/Tabs.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Tabs
PlugIn Identifier: com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs
PlugIn Version: 1.6.18 (1.6.18)

Date/Time: 2015-05-06 16:26:58.498 -0700
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: FF1575DF-A9B3-AF28-6584-AD965819F692

Sleep/Wake UUID: 66861053-028C-456E-88F0-B65FB44B6C44

Time Awake Since Boot: 540000 seconds
Time Since Wake: 3200 seconds

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

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000

VM Regions Near 0:
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__TEXT 00000001026d5000-0000000102bde000 [ 5156K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9770f91f CFStringGetLength + 15
1 com.apple.finder 0x0000000102736780 0x1026d5000 + 399232
2 com.apple.finder 0x000000010289f5f0 0x1026d5000 + 1877488
3 com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs 0x000000010ed82581 0x10ed16000 + 443777
4 com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs 0x000000010ed43223 0x10ed16000 + 184867
5 com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs 0x000000010ed7f84e 0x10ed16000 + 432206
6 com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs 0x000000010ed7ac1c 0x10ed16000 + 412700
7 com.binaryage.totalfinder.tabs 0x000000010ed857ed 0x10ed16000 + 456685
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911db323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d6c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e3578 _dispatch_after_timer_callback + 77
11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d6c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
12 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e187e _dispatch_source_latch_and_call + 721
13 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911da62b _dispatch_source_invoke + 412
14 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e2b02 _dispatch_main_queue_callback_4CF + 416
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff977b43f9 CFRUNLOOP_IS_SERVICING_THE_MAIN_DISPATCH_QUEUE + 9
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9776f68f __CFRunLoopRun + 2159
17 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9776ebd8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8d24d56f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 235
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8d24d2ea ReceiveNextEventCommon + 431
20 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8d24d12b _BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 71
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff92b489bb _DPSNextEvent + 978
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff92b47f68 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 346
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff92b3dbf3 -[NSApplication run] + 594
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff92aba354 NSApplicationMain + 1832
25 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026db3d2 0x1026d5000 + 25554
26 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff965e65c9 start + 1

Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967b232 kevent64 + 10
1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d9a6a _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52

Thread 2:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 3:: Dispatch queue: TNodeEngine 0x7fec53e64ae0
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f9b53 0x1026d5000 + 150355
2 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026fa067 0x1026d5000 + 151655
3 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026e9002 0x1026d5000 + 81922
4 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f99f8 0x1026d5000 + 150008
5 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f98c0 0x1026d5000 + 149696
6 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f3316 0x1026d5000 + 123670
7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911db323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d6c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911da365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911dbecc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 202
11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d96b7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 463
12 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e7fe4 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d637 _pthread_wqthread + 729
14 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 4:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 5:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 6:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 7:: Dispatch queue: TNodeEngine 0x7fec53e8d4b0
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f9b53 0x1026d5000 + 150355
2 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026fa067 0x1026d5000 + 151655
3 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026e9002 0x1026d5000 + 81922
4 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f99f8 0x1026d5000 + 150008
5 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f98c0 0x1026d5000 + 149696
6 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f3316 0x1026d5000 + 123670
7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911db323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d6c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911da365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911dbecc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 202
11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d96b7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 463
12 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e7fe4 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d637 _pthread_wqthread + 729
14 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 8:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 9:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 10:: Dispatch queue: TNodeEngine 0x7fec53cc1a00
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f9b53 0x1026d5000 + 150355
2 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026fa067 0x1026d5000 + 151655
3 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026e9002 0x1026d5000 + 81922
4 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f99f8 0x1026d5000 + 150008
5 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f98c0 0x1026d5000 + 149696
6 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f3316 0x1026d5000 + 123670
7 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911db323 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 12
8 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d6c13 _dispatch_client_callout + 8
9 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911da365 _dispatch_queue_drain + 1100
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911dbecc _dispatch_queue_invoke + 202
11 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911d96b7 _dispatch_root_queue_drain + 463
12 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff911e7fe4 _dispatch_worker_thread3 + 91
13 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d637 _pthread_wqthread + 729
14 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 11:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 12:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff99025f08 -[NSCondition wait] + 237
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff99016d9e -[NSObject(NSThreadPerformAdditions) performSelector:onThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:modes:] + 823
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff9909a22e -[NSObject(NSThreadPerformAdditions) performSelectorOnMainThread:withObject:waitUntilDone:modes:] + 87
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff977a9c26 forwarding + 518
5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff977a9998 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
6 com.apple.imageKit 0x00007fff993e8f14 -[IKTaskManager taskLoop] + 840
7 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff99025dc2 NSThread__main + 1345
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d268 _pthread_body + 131
9 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d1e5 _pthread_start + 176
10 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b41d thread_start + 13

Thread 13:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a136 __psynch_cvwait + 10
1 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026f9b53 0x1026d5000 + 150355
2 com.apple.finder 0x000000010271fde2 0x1026d5000 + 306658
3 com.apple.finder 0x00000001028fabb4 0x1026d5000 + 2251700
4 com.apple.finder 0x00000001026dc734 0x1026d5000 + 30516
5 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d268 _pthread_body + 131
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d1e5 _pthread_start + 176
7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b41d thread_start + 13

Thread 14:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 15:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967a94a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b40d start_wqthread + 13

Thread 16:

Thread 17:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff996754de mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff9967464f mach_msg + 55
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9776feb4 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 212
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9776f37b __CFRunLoopRun + 1371
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff9776ebd8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 296
5 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff92c1066b _NSEventThread + 137
6 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d268 _pthread_body + 131
7 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8d1e5 _pthread_start + 176
8 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff94e8b41d thread_start + 13

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
rax: 0x00007fff5d529170 rbx: 0x0000000000000000 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x0000000102b394e9
rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x00007fff5d529170 rbp: 0x00007fff5d529120 rsp: 0x00007fff5d529110
r8: 0x0000000000000000 r9: 0x0000000000000540 r10: 0x00007fec53c0d560 r11: 0x0000000102ccc338
r12: 0x0000000102ccc2e8 r13: 0x47009382a098e024 r14: 0x00007fff5d5291f0 r15: 0x00007fff5d529170
rip: 0x00007fff9770f91f rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x0000000000000000

A few days ago right after updating Safari to Version 8.0.6 (10600.6.3) finder just stopped working. Iā€™d click on it and nothing would happen and was unable to navigate anywhere. I repeatedly deleted finder plist and tried various work arounds via terminal (as was my only option), uninstalled totalfinder, downloaded it again and reinstalled and as soon as it installed the exact same behavior happened. Advice? Running an iMac 10.10.3

Can you tell me what the does? Iā€™m assuming it prevents TotalFinder from re-opening tabs when it starts but I want to be sure because I want my tabs re-opened so this wouldnā€™t work for me.

still not working even after installing this latest version ;(( I guess itā€™s time to give it up and try xtrafinder