open Finder.app at coreservices, any side effect?

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open Finder.app at coreservices, any side effect?

Hi, I want to create a shortcut in Streamdeck, or create a Automator with shortcut so I can activate Finder anywhere instead using mouse to click at the bottom.I can’t find a Finder app in the application folder but I found it in the CoreServices folder under system/library. When I double click to open it, it says “it can’t be opened”, but when I’m in another application and do the shortcut it gets me to Finder and it work.

since it’s not in the application folder but in coreservice folder , and I also get an error message for directly open Finder.app from the Finder, I wonder if there’s any side effect or will it cause anything else when I hit the shortcut (no matter Automator or streamdeck) which open this Finder.app?

thanks a lot

Posted on Dec 23, 2022 2:17 AM

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John Galt

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Dec 23, 2022 4:07 AM in response to wraperwraper

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

That is the Finder app. The reason it can't be opened is that it's always open.

tell application "Finder"
	activate
end tell

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John Galt

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Dec 23, 2022 8:35 AM in response to wraperwraper

I wouldn't worry about it. The only reason for my reticence is that I am not familiar with Stream Deck so it's not as though I can duplicate what you want to do so as to reassure you nothing will go wrong.

Lots of macOS components are in CoreServices. Since most of them are not windowed apps, they are not intended to be launched from there. It would just cause confusion if a user were to open an app in CoreServices and nothing appeared to happen.

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John Galt

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Dec 23, 2022 4:44 AM in response to wraperwraper

I can't help with Stream Deck specifically, but I doubt it will cause any trouble since that's where the Finder app resides. If Stream Deck has no equivalent for the "activate" verb and only offers "open", then that's what I'd suggest.

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John Galt

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Dec 23, 2022 9:18 AM in response to wraperwraper

Sure, you can try it yourself. /System/Library/CoreServices/HelpViewer.app for example — it's one of the few that opens and runs in a window the user can close.

To reiterate, I just don't know what Stream Deck will do.

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wraperwraper Author

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Dec 23, 2022 4:28 AM in response to John Galt

Thanks. Currently I use Streamdeck , the run command is a shortcut allows to open a certain App, I set to open this Finder.app in the coreservices, just like any app in the application folder.

it does what I want but I suppose there’s no side effect, nothing else is caused or related except open/activate the Finder, by using this Finder.app inside Coreservice folder?

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