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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <19980710092552100585@thebeast.demon.co.uk>,
> listbox@thebeast.demon.co.uk (Steve Rogers) wrote:
> 
> >Why would my Finder (8.1) keep quitting unexpectedly (with no error
> >message)?  It seems to be associated with Speed Doubler (8.1) copying,
> >particularly with large amounts of data.
> 
> It recently happened to me with a very short file copy (with SpeedDoubler
> 8). Boom, no finder. Ctrl-Cmd-Power was the only way out.

This isn't the normal sign of the Finder quitting.  If you've got a Mac
with no Finder, it works quite happily, but...   You don't get to use
anything operated by the Finder (so no launching applications, for
example), and you can get the Finder to re-launch by quitting all other
applications.

Writing an AppleScript to demonstrate this is quite easy:

tell application "Finder" to quit

should do the job.

[snip]

Rowland.

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