Mac users have always boasted of having an operating system free of blue screens (typical of Windows XP), unexpected crashes ... but that may have been a long time ago, because now they no longer free, neither from crapware nor unexpected crashes that leave us bogged down with the work we are doing. In this case, we are going to explain to you what to do when the Finder, a fundamental element in OS X, is transposed and leaves us blocked without being able to use our Mac practically. The solution is none other than restarting the Finder, we do not need to turn off and Let's turn the computer back on.
Steps to follow to restart the Finder
- First we must go to the Finder button, hold down the key? keyboard and click on the icon.
- A new option called Force reboot will then appear in the drop-down menu. Click on it to restart the Finder.
Another way to do so is the following:
- Go to the block that is in the first position of the upper menu options.
- Next we will click on Force exit.
If none of these options just found you, there is still another option.
- We go to the top right, click on the magnifying glass and write in Spotlight Terminal.
- In the command line we must write killall Finder.
The three ways that I just described will restart the Finder automatically. There are more ways you can restart the Finder, but these are the easiest ways to do it. If you see that the Finder works slow, hangs or takes time to open, the best we can do is restart it.