Finder won't relaunce itself. Help please.

[iChanged]

Can anybody help me with this?

Is it normal for the Finder to quit using the Cmd+ Q? I thought it needs to be force quit. But of late, sometimes, accidentally if I press Cmd+Q on a finder window, it quits, and does not relaunch either. So to speak, the Desktop disappears. I have to launch Downloads/Documents from the Dock to start the finder running once again. Doesn't seem Mac like. Something wrong, is it?

And i recall this started happening after I ran an update for 10.6.1. It was running fine with 10.6.0

Regards.

 

[J the Ninja]

Look in the Finder's application menu. Is there an actual Quit button there? If there is, and you'd rather there wasn't, open up terminal and type this in, and hit enter after each line:

defaults delete com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem
killall Finder

 

[iChanged]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Just a couple of more queries.
But how do I make it relaunch in case I need to refresh?
And how do I put the Quit command back on the menu, yet again, just in case.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Just a couple of more queries.
But how do I make it relaunch in case I need to refresh?
And how do I put the Quit command back on the menu, yet again, just in case.

To relaunch the finder, click its icon in the dock once, or force quit it.
To put the Quit item back, use these Terminal commands:

defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
killall Finder

 

[netnothing]

Thanks a lot. It worked. Just a couple of more queries.
But how do I make it relaunch in case I need to refresh?
And how do I put the Quit command back on the menu, yet again, just in case.

If you ever want to just relaunch the Finder, hold down the option key and right click (or control + click) on the Finder icon in the dock. You will see a Relaunch command at the bottom of the dialog that pops up.

-Kevin