Mac file recovery

Most of the users of Snow leopard face the issue of hang or crash with Finder and get error message –“The application Finder.app can't be opened. -10810".

Reasons

Most of the users who face this problem agree with one term that when they try to access external hard drive on their Mac OSX 10.6 snow leopard they got this error message. But this is not the only reason and there are similar other reasons also for this. Despite of how drives are mounted, this behavior of mac occurs either through various ports or through network drives and shares. Users face the problem when they have share mounted during waking from sleep (for network volume). You can fix the error message by simply unmounting the share which is using the terminal. Some of the user found with locally attached external hard drive that just by simply powering them off and back when they are still attached give you satisfied result.

Other reason is associated with faults in the Launch Services feature of Mac OS X. it occurs when user access the “Open With…” contextual menu for files on the external drive.

This behavior of Mac OS X system may cause critical data inaccessible and may lead to the situation of data loss.

Solution

Hard-resetting your system may leads to some more additional problem and it is true that it is not going to fix the current problem. So without doing this there are other solutions which you can try. For this you need to access the terminal.

1. Unmount disks--- If you have attached your drive locally then off the power while they are still attached. Listen carefully and if you are hearing any read or write noise then wait for some time for drive to be silence before hitting power.
2. Kill Finder and Dock processes- it is assumed that manually killing Finder and Dock process should reset and re launch them. You can run this command to reset these programs. sudo killall Finder Dock
3. Use terminal to shutdown and restart ---Never try to shut down your system through Power button. Instead of that use terminal to do so. You can do this through the following command. sudo shutdown -h now . if you want to restart then use “-r” instead of “-h”

This problem need to be address by Apple but it is seems to be happening to a subset of snow leopard running system. There are few more things which can try to fix the problem.

1. Try to rebuild launch services in Mac OSX 10.6 snow leopard because problem is somewhere associated with launch services. Reset launch services.
2. Prevent the external drive from being indexed. Try to add them to the Spotlight exclude lists in system preference.
3. If you are not able fix the problem by using any one of the solution then the last solution is reinstall OS X. Mac OS X 10.6 will automatically do an archive and preserve user setting. Reinstallation can fix most of such issues.

Although you get solution from finder crash or hang and error –“The application Finder.app can't be opened. -10810". But formatting and reinstalling OS X 10.6 may lead to loss of your data. But you need not to worry as you can recover them through the powerful and advanced Mac file recovery software.

It is designed with the advanced scanning algorithm which scans hard drive thoroughly and recovers lost data from formatted hard drive. It is compatible with any version of Mac OSX.