Yes, even macOS is not completely flawless and sometimes we can encounter a stuck "Explorer" in this operating system from the Apple company - Finderem. Reasons why you would like Finder restart, there are more. For example, this may be a situation where you make some changes to the settings, and they will only take effect after a restart Finderu. Another thing that may happen, of course, is that Finder for some reason it starts to crash or work slowly. In this case, restarting might help.
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But before we get to the reboot FinderIf you're going to let me go, please allow me to make a small warning. Finder can seem slow, especially if you've copied a lot of files and data to your Mac. In this case, Spotlight indexing is happening in the background, which can take up a lot of time. Finder slow down. In this case, I recommend waiting for indexing to complete. However, if indexing is not your thing, continue reading.
How to reboot Finder
If it's yours Finder completely "crazy", restarting it is quite simple. First, move to the desktop or the active window Finderu. Then you simply need to left part of the upper bar clicked on logo. Apple, they pressed Shift and chose the option Force process termination Finder. When pressed, all windows disappear Finderand after a while it will start again.
How to reboot Finder using a keyboard shortcut
If the above procedure is too lengthy for you, you can restart Finderu use keyboard shortcuts. On the desktop or in the active window Finderu just press the key combination Command + Option + Escape. This hotkey will bring up a kind of "task manager" in which you just need to find Finder, mark it and press Run again.
How to reboot Finder using Terminal
Finder you can also restart directly in Terminal. Just go to Terminal (Launchpad -> Other -> Terminal or Spotlight -> Terminal) and copy this command:
killall Finder
Then the command paste in the terminal and confirm it by enter.
How to reboot Finder using Activity Monitor
Let's open the utility Activity monitor (Launchpad -> Other -> Activity Monitor). Here we move to the tab CPU and we find the process in the list Finder, which you are we mark, and then using it cross in the upper left corner we restart windows.
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I hope each of you chooses the best path to Finder restart in case of incorrect functionality. Hopefully you won't have to use this guide too often and everything will work as it should.
Option = Alt. Just so you know :-)
So maybe everyone knows that applist :-)
japko + alt + esc :-)
PS: the japko with a "p" is intentional
if it freezes finder, often the panel is not working dock, so launching the terminal is out of the question, as is using the top panel. However, the keyboard shortcut works reliably. But I still don't know nestoh, that would be dock He froze so hard that he couldn't walk for a minute...