Os X Error 10810 Finder
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is full. When the process table is full, new (not currently running) applications cannot be opened until another running application ends. Programming errors in third-party applications can fill-up the process table, leading to the -10810 error when opening an application.
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This FAQ discusses: the background of this problem; its history, reported workarounds, and general troubleshooting the application finder can't be opened 10810 fix advice; and provides a procedure for identifying the process or processes that are filling the process table. It is based upon extensive research of "10810" "finder" "disown" this problem on the Web, especially a 2009 Apple Mailing Lists post by contributor Terry Lambert. This FAQ expounds upon Terry's post in an attempt to make the cause and resolution of this problem more accessible to the
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general Mac OS X user. Background All running programs on your Mac are processes. This includes both applications that you open and faceless background processes, i.e. processes without a graphical user interface (GUI), such as mds (the Spotlight metadata server) or cupsd (the CUPS printing daemon). Activity Monitor shows a list of all running processes. Finder is an application, hence it is a process. Processes can launch other processes, known as child processes. For example, the launchd
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(launch daemon) process opens many background processes when you start up or log in to your Mac; launchd is the parent process and each process it opens is a child process of launchd. Mac OS X tracks running processes in a process table. Mac OS X has a default limit of 266 user processes per account. You can see this limit by issuing the Terminal command ulimit -a and noting the max user processes value. Once this limit is reached, the process table is full: new processes cannot be started until a currently running process terminates, hence new applications cannot be opened. If you attempt to open a new application when the process table is full, an alert dialog will appear showing error code -10810, e.g. The application appname.app can't be opened. -10810 where appname is the name of the application you attempted to open. If Finder is hung and you attempt to relaunch it when the process table is full, an alert dialog appears with the message: The application Finder.app can't be opened. -10810 The limit of 266 user processes per account is set high enough that it would be virtually impossible for a user to open enough applications to fill the process table (the default limit is different under Mac OS X Server). Programming errors, especially in third-party applications, can lead to three general causes of a
a reboot. From what I've gathered by searching around on the web, Error 10810 occurs when the Launch Services framework has some sort of meltdown, causing the Mac OS X Kernel to run the application finder can't be opened el capitan out of available threads for anymore processes to launch. In the event that some process
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has got errant and is in some infinite loop of launching and hoarding threads, this will cause a rather lovely barrage of the application finder can't be opened 1712 error dialog boxes (see screenshot below). If you start getting Error 10810 in OS X, you likely won't be able to launch any other application (Finder included) and so the best thing you can do is to http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/error-10810.html reboot your Mac. Yes, rebooting the Mac will fix the error - kind of lame, but it works. If you are continuously plagued by this error, then you may be using some buggy software that is launching itself into a gazillion threads causing Mac OS X to freak out. If anyone has additional information or troubleshooting tips regarding this error, feel free to chime in. For what it's worth, simply killing and restarting the Finder http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/09/mac-error-10810/ was not sufficient in my experience to resolve the error, which is why a complete reboot of the Mac was necessary. Enjoy this tip? Subscribe to the OSXDaily newsletter to get more of our great Apple tips, tricks, and important news delivered to your inbox! Enter your email address below: Related articles: Fix Mac App Store Error @@errorNum@@Fix Mac App Store Error 100Fix "Error Establishing Database a Connection" When Using AbsintheFix the App Store "MZFreeProductCode .ClientCannotRedeemIosApp_explanation" Promo Code Redemption Error Posted by: William Pearson in Mac OS X, Troubleshooting 30 Comments » Comments RSS Feed Patrick McMahon says: February 9, 2010 at 5:21 pm I run into this every so often in Snow Leopard, to the point where I have to perform a hard restart. I noticed, on accident, yesterday that if I kick off Spotlight via Command+Space, and click on Show All, it will sometimes kick the Finder back into motion and restore my desktop icons, etc. Reply Aqilah says: September 18, 2012 at 8:36 pm Thanks a lot! really helpful patrick! Reply Steinar says: February 9, 2010 at 7:29 pm Logging out and back in again works for me. Reply Ian Cull says: February 9, 2010 at 8:02 pm Coincidence! This happened to me tonight, first time … I'll try logging out/in, better than reboot (plus it didn't shut down, I
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Google Apps QI B.A.S. Information Technology Contact Me The Infamous OS X execution error: An error of type -10810 has occurred. (-10810) This error seems to appear often when I am using osascript for automating things. This error is a bit of a mystery as hundreds of users will say. In addition, it is not even listed in the MacErrors.h file found at: /System/Library/Frameworks//CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/MacErrors.h 1 /System/Library/Frameworks//CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Versions/A/Headers/MacErrors.h After a lot of searching, I found some possible reasons why this error occurs: there is not a GUI, but one is required-even if being run as root access to assistive devices is not enabled the process table is full (i.e. fork bombs or zombie processes) LaunchServices has some sort of failure Since I mostly deal with scripting and automation, this post will be more about that and not so much about the Finder not being able to open because of this error. There Is Not A GUI, But One Is Required This error sometimes appears when running a script that requires a GUI, but the script is being run as root. The solution here is to get the current user and substitute as them. First, you need to get the current user and store that value in a variable, which can be done a number of ways: currentUser=$(stat -f "%Su" /dev/console) # Alternate ways to get the currently logged in user currentUser=$(who | grep console | awk '{print $1}') currentUser=$(logname) currentUser=$(ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4) currentUser=$(printf "get State:/Users/ConsoleUser\nd.show" | scutil | awk '/kCGSSessionUserNameKey/ {print $3}') 123456 currentUser=$(stat -f "%Su" /dev/console)# Alternate ways to get the currently logged in usercurrentUser=$(who | grep console | awk '{print $1}')currentUser=$(logname)currentUser=$(ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f4)currentUser=$(printf "get State:/Users/ConsoleUser\nd.show" | scutil | awk '/kCGSSessionUserNameKey/ {print $3}') Then you can run the script under that user's context: su "$currentUser" -c "your commands here" 1 su "$currentUser" -c "your commands here"