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Finder Maxing Out RAM

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arexlame

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May 26, 2013
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I'm brand new to the forums guys, sorry if I'm reposting something that has been discussed.

I have a 1TB external drive, have had it for a year and have been using it fine with my Retina MBP. This arvo I went to use it, and I plugged it in and went about my business and next minute, I get a 'No memory warning, please force quit applications'.

A quick trip to activity monitor and the finder's using 5.73GB!!!

Has anybody heard of this at all, or know what could be causing this? Even when I try to open my drive, it shows an empty drive.

Thanks again
 
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arexlame

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May 26, 2013
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I can resolve the issue by pulling out the drive and relaunching finder, but even after a full three restarts, nothings changed..

It's got 8gb, and it never runs slow at all..
 
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arexlame

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May 26, 2013
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justperry said:
No, when it says it can't unmount the drive it is in use, what are you using it for right now, a TimeMachine backup, if so turn of TimeMachine first and retry.
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Oh okay, so it's not open by anything. I don't use time machine so it's turned off, and the only thing that's open on my mac is finder and disk utility.

Interestingly; it does the exact same thing on my snow leopard iMac, but works perfectly on a Windows 7 PC..
 
justperry

justperry

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Aug 10, 2007
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arexlame said:
Oh okay, so it's not open by anything. I don't use time machine so it's turned off, and the only thing that's open on my mac is finder and disk utility.

Interestingly; it does the exact same thing on my snow leopard iMac, but works perfectly on a Windows 7 PC..
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That's why I think it needs a repair.

Do the following:

You need to quit the finder but this needs a "hack"
Open Terminal and add the following line, just copy from here:

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true

killall Finder

After done the above click on the Finder Menu and quit the Finder, next open Disk Utility and try again.
 
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arexlame

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 26, 2013
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justperry said:
That's why I think it needs a repair.

Do the following:

You need to quit the finder but this needs a "hack"
Open Terminal and add the following line, just copy from here:

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true

killall Finder

After done the above click on the Finder Menu and quit the Finder, next open Disk Utility and try again.
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Oh wow, that's solved it!

After running the terminal command, and leaving every other application closed, disk utility ran its repair happily.

Thankyou so much for your time, you're a life saver!
 
justperry

justperry

macrumors G5
Aug 10, 2007
12,557
9,750
I'm a rolling stone.
arexlame said:
Oh wow, that's solved it!

After running the terminal command, and leaving every other application closed, disk utility ran its repair happily.

Thankyou so much for your time, you're a life saver!
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:D:D

Glad it is solved.
What I think it was is that the drive was having errors, the Finder then stalled on the drive.
 
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