Finder crashed.. Fix without restarting?

[Mammoth]

So I was doing some normal stuff just now and it seems Finder has frozen. I cannot use Spaces, Expose, Cmd Tab, my dock froze when I clicked the Firefox icon, and even the Force Quit window is beachballing. I can move windows around but they stay in their order. iTunes was still playing, but it beachballs on it and every other program. Interestingly Azureus and aMSN still work fine. I can go through all the menus, including Time, Network, blah blah but not the Spotlight one. What's going on?

 

[janitorC7]

I'm not sure what the problem is, but if it keeps bothing you I think that Archive and Install is your friend.

Just Wondering, why are you so opposed to restarting?

 

[superleccy]

Have you tried CMD-OPT-ESC > Finder > Relaunch?

Normally does the trick for me.

SL

 

[Mammoth]

Have you tried CMD-OPT-ESC > Finder > Relaunch?

Normally does the trick for me.

SL

Yeah I tried that before it crashed but now I can't select anything inside it.


I'll probably end up restarting. I'd just prefer not to as I don't know the password to my own account. (My mom changed it)

 

[pjrobertson]

Open terminal:
type

killall Finder

(capital F)

 

[janitorC7]

Yeah I tried that before it crashed but now I can't select anything inside it.


I'll probably end up restarting. I'd just prefer not to as I don't know the password to my own account. (My mom changed it)

ummmm, you may want to get the password, its kind of a good idea to restart your computer every other day at least so that you can dump the contents of your RAM...