The application finder.app can’t be opened-10810” error in Mac OS X snow leopard causes data loss

Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard, one of the latest OS X version having robust features and unmatched performance speed. But, errors have been detected in it and several cases of finder crash, hang or not responding has come across. In a particular case while attempting to access an external hard drive of Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard a finder error as “the application finder.app can’t be opened-10810” may be received. The definite cause of this problem has is not yet known but this makes the disk data inaccessible leading to critical data loss and an update may be provided by apple to fix this error.

Though it has nothing to do with how the drive is mounted through network drive /shares or through firewire or USB ports. Such a problem may arise in network volumes, if the shares are mounted while waking from sleep and unmounting volumes using the network may solve the problem.

This is mainly due to faults in launch services characteristics of Mac OS X as it most obviously happens when “open with” context menu are used for access of files and directories on external hard drive.

Though several ways are there like unmounting hard disk, killing dock and finder process, restarting the system which resolve the Mac OS X error but incase of failure of these methods to make the system accessible, the next step would be formatting the drive and reinstalling Mac OS X 10.6 snow leopard. Though this resolves the error “application finder.app can’t be opened-10810” but leaves us without the data and in order to recover mac file you may use mac data recovery which is professional data recovery mac software and with its powerful scanning technique recovers all lost, deleted and missing data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, HFS wrapper from Mac OS X system.