11/5/13

Original Poster

Steve Orosz

Google Drive Crashing Finder (Error -609) [OS X 10.9]

Hi,
Starting today (11/4/13) Google Drive appears to be crashing Finder. Until today, Drive was working fine. The symptom starts whenever I have a full screen application. About once a minute, the screen switches to the Desktop. I can swipe back to my working application but the problem repeats. The problem seems to go away when I disable syncing. Below are my log files. Any help would be appreciated.

Steve

System Log
11/4/13 8:43:27.779 PM Google Drive[251]: Failed to send: -609

Google Drive Sync_Log
2013-11-04 20:42:27,203 ERROR pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector finder_injector.pyo:319 Finder injector failed, exception: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609, stack_trace: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 315, in _AttemptInjection
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 416, in _UpdateFinder
RuntimeError: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609

2013-11-04 20:42:27,204 INFO pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector crash_report_manager.pyo:244 Crash reporting disabled. Ignoring report.
2013-11-04 20:42:27,204 ERROR pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector fatal_exceptions.pyo:51 Ignoring non-fatal error: RuntimeError: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609, Traceback:
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 315, in _AttemptInjection
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 416, in _UpdateFinder

2013-11-04 20:43:27,779 ERROR pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector finder_injector.pyo:319 Finder injector failed, exception: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609, stack_trace: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 315, in _AttemptInjection
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 416, in _UpdateFinder
RuntimeError: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609

2013-11-04 20:43:27,780 INFO pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector crash_report_manager.pyo:244 Crash reporting disabled. Ignoring report.
2013-11-04 20:43:27,781 ERROR pid=251 -1331572736:FinderInjector fatal_exceptions.pyo:51 Ignoring non-fatal error: RuntimeError: Couldn't get Finder windows: -609, Traceback:
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 315, in _AttemptInjection
File "osx/finder_injector.pyo", line 416, in _UpdateFinder

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11/5/13

RishiS

Hi all,

This should be resolved for OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Please restart your Google Drive application. Please let us know if you are still experiencing this issue after a restart.

Thanks and apologies for the inconvenience this has caused.

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11/5/13

Original Poster

Steve Orosz

I submitted a crash report.

Report ID: DD7F8A8C06A41082

11/5/13

Jose Luis Parella

Same here, finder crashing every minute or so, disable syncing didn't help, I had to quit google drive, then no more finder crashes.

11/5/13

gnomehole

Ditto. It didn't happen when I first installed mavericks... just started today, oddly enough. Was there an update?

Closing out Google Drive stops the madness.

Bad google!

11/5/13

mvanholstyn

I am having the exact same problem.

11/5/13

Rex Yang

yes me,too.
bad google

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11/9/14

Google user

On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 09:10:33 UTC, Michael Guntsche wrote:
> ... I tried to figure out why. For me the following command fixed the issue
>
> sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force

Thank you, that worked for me. At last someone finds a real solution. Maybe you should work for Google, seems like they need a few more clever people.

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