| Tip 27 | Restart a Jammed Finder |
You can quickly reboot Finder if you see the “beach ball of death” by holding down Option and right-clicking the Finder’s icon in the Dock. Then select Relaunch from the menu that appears.
Note that some people report that temporarily switching off Wi-Fi can also recover a crashed Finder. It’s not quite clear why this works, but it’s probably because Finder has gotten stuck while trying to access a network resource, and turning off the network frees it up. To turn off Wi-Fi, click the Wi-Fi icon at the top right of the screen and select Turn Wi-Fi Off. Then, when Finder has recovered, click the icon again, and this time select Turn Wi-Fi On.
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