Comments on: Killing Finder by Accident

By: Garrett

Garrett — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:01:06 +0000

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention something. I don’t know how to go into or find Terminal so I’m screwed.

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:15:09 +0000

Oh and one question. Why sudo? You can just type killall Finder and it will quit (well, it will pop back up instantly but it still quits)

By: Austin

Austin — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:04:37 +0000

This worked for me when I tried it too… I’m not sure if that’s reliable as a source of proof that it works though because i added quit to finder with terminal so it might have modified it to quit on cmd-q too

By: Q

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:37:13 +0000

command W to close any window

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:52:42 +0000

Everyone, it was no accident. Somehow a feature of your operating system got activated that added the quit option to the Finder menu. This can be turned on and off again using Terminal. Try it for yourself.

To turn the Quit menu on:
In Terminal type:

defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES

Hit Return.

Then type:

killall Finder

Hit Return.

To turn this quit menu off do the same as before just change “YES” to “NO” and then repeat killall Finder.

By: Ugamer

Ugamer — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:30:24 +0000

The solution to this problem has been posted on this blog:

http://utvv.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-fix-application-finder-cant-be.html

Hope this helps!

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:27:12 +0000

I am not sure why it did that, i got an error to though, Finder was acting up so I force quit it and now when i try to start it up I get

” The application Finder can’t be open -10810″

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:07:20 +0000

I just did the same thing by accident. What I want to know is how I relaunch it??? I shut the computer down then restarted it and still the finder won’t open. WHen I click on it it says “the application finder can’t be opened”

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By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:12:45 +0000

In Leopard, try pressing Option while clicking and holding the Finder’s dock icon.

What’s the last menu item you see?