🚀 go-pugleaf

Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet> wrote:

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

Indeed - Hands up all those that rebuild desktops by giving the Finder a
Vulcan nerve pinch and holding down splat-opt-shift rather than
restarting the machine.

That's one of the Unix-like things I like about the Mac - the Finder is
*just* another application.

That said, I do regard Speed/Ram/etc.Doubler, etc. as devices of Satan
and don't run them except in dire emergency - so I've never seen Finder8
quit.

rgds, Alan
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