We’ve all done it: you go to open a bunch of photos you’re editing and you accidentally hit CMD + P instead of CMD + O. Then your computer goes insane trying to print a massive amount of images. Alternatively, you get the context mixed up in Finder, opening a parent directory items instead of the items in a given folder (the panel view in Finder makes it easy to do this).
When this happens to me for printing (accidentally print instead of opening items), i usually immediately disconnect from the network so it doesn’t actually print. Then i run “killall Finder” or “killall <app>” repeatedly but it doesn’t seem to actually do anything because the opening tasks or actions are already loaded into memory.
Is there a terminal command to cancel the batch processing of items?
Unfortunately, the only solution that always works that I’ve found is force resetting. But there has to be another way.
When this happens to me for printing (accidentally print instead of opening items), i usually immediately disconnect from the network so it doesn’t actually print. Then i run “killall Finder” or “killall <app>” repeatedly but it doesn’t seem to actually do anything because the opening tasks or actions are already loaded into memory.
Is there a terminal command to cancel the batch processing of items?
Unfortunately, the only solution that always works that I’ve found is force resetting. But there has to be another way.
