Killing Finder by Accident

January 29th, 2008 | Category: Apple / Mac

Tonight I realized something, it caught me off guard for a second. Generally to quit a program I will hit command-q to quit the program. Tonight I wanted to close a Finder window so I hit command-q and to my surprise that actually killed the entire Finder process and not only the front most Finder window.

Now that I think about that it

is the proper behavior but I would think that with something as critical as Finder they would compose that command only close the front most window. I noticed that everything was gone, even the icons on my desktop. I guess that is a quicker way than dropping to terminal to sudo killall Finder.

Orginal post by jcrawford

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