Killing Finder by Accident
- January 29th, 2008
- 11:14 PM (GMT-5)
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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 this actually killed the entire Finder process and not only the front most Finder window. Now that I think about this it is the proper behavior but I would think that with something as critical as Finder they would make that command only close the front most window. I noticed that everything was gone, even the icons on my desktop. I guess this is a quicker way than dropping to terminal to sudo killall Finder.
