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"Finder Unexpectedly Quit" on MBA 2012

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henryonapple

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Hello All,

Yesterday my MBA 2012 was getting this message upon login:

"Finder Unexpectedly Quit"

It gives me the option to Ignore, Report, and Reopen. If I click on any of these, a new window pops up saying that finder unexpectedly quit.

After 3 or 4 times, my computer becomes stuck on the rotating circle.

I cannot click on anything - no applications, no console, no terminal.

Any advice is appreciated. I am going to see the Genius Bar later today.
 
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newdeal

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something has been corrupted. May be bad luck but if you have a Toshiba SSD it may also be because of the crappy sandforce controller in it
 
flowrider

flowrider

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If newdeal is correct, you could start by hooking up an external USB drive with an OS and see if that will start your Air.

Lou
 
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henryonapple

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flowrider said:
If newdeal is correct, you could start by hooking up an external USB drive with an OS and see if that will start your Air.

Lou
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I was able to put my MBA in Target Disk Mode and backup the files I needed.

However, when I get info my user folder it says it has 80gb, but when I look into the individual folders it only adds up to be about 50gb. Anyone know what/where the missing 30gb is?
 
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henryonapple

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newdeal said:
something has been corrupted. May be bad luck but if you have a Toshiba SSD it may also be because of the crappy sandforce controller in it
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My SSD is totally dead. I have blamed it on the Toshiba SSD and sandforce controller
 
sjinsjca

sjinsjca

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henryonapple said:
Luckily, I was able to do a full Time Machine backup before the SSD died!
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There's a lesson there!

I meet a disturbing number of folks who think that since SSDs have no moving parts, they'll last forever. One crusty old coot of my acquaintance insists that because he's never had a thumb drive fail, they never fail, and so his SSD is guaranteed against failing. I've given up telling him how wrong he is and have suggested instead that a backup is defense against theft, too, but he still doesn't back up. <facepalm>

Anyway, sorry for your troubles, but congratulations on a better outcome than many.
 
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MeUnix

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sjinsjca said:
There's a lesson there!

I meet a disturbing number of folks who think that since SSDs have no moving parts, they'll last forever. One crusty old coot of my acquaintance insists that because he's never had a thumb drive fail, they never fail, and so his SSD is guaranteed against failing. I've given up telling him how wrong he is and have suggested instead that a backup is defense against theft, too, but he still doesn't back up. <facepalm>

Anyway, sorry for your troubles, but congratulations on a better outcome than many.
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Technology isn't perfect, nor will it ever be ;)

I always recommend to my friends (who aren't very tech savvy) to do backups on their machines. Most don't, and when hard drives, SSDs, etc, die they turn to me and I tell them, "Should've done a backup!"
 
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