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can anybody help me with this. I find it extremely annoying that I have to restart the computer as the finder will not relaunch without doing so. I am new to Mac and have just purchased one last month and am having a few issues with it I would like to resolve.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
I also had this problem after awaking my iMac from a sleep.
It still showed my external drive on the desktop and within the finder sidebar but in force quit and right clicking on the finder icon in the dock, both saying it was not responding, I restarted finder to no avail.
I found that the external hard drive had disconnected (the cable had come out slightly) which finder didn't seem to be aware of, after a couple attempts reconnecting the hard drive finder relaunched itself.
This may or may not work for you but i've had this a couple times and it seemed to work.
I had the same problem. Using the safe mode, fixed the issue.
Thank you
5 years later, you helped me. Thanks a lot!
after force quitting finder it will not relaunch finder without having to restart the computer. Why?
