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0 pointsphilwelch15y ago0 comments

This wasn't the case at all, at least not on stock OS X (who knows what you could enable with haxies). You could certainly force quit the Finder, but it just relaunched immediately.

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parenthesis15y ago

Well, that's funny, because I'm using vanilla OS X 10.3.4 right now, and I just quit the Finder in the way that I said.

Screenshots:

http://www.alexmaslin.org/quit-finder.jpg

http://www.alexmaslin.org/no-finder.jpg

It doesn't relaunch automatically. You either have to click on the Finder icon in the Dock, or otherwise it relaunches itself if you quit all other open applications.

philwelchOP15y ago

That's extremely funny, but I'm almost completely certain that's not as "vanilla" as you think it is. Perhaps it was enabled on the command line? It looks like

  defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES

will do the trick. So perhaps you're operating from a custom com.apple.finder preferences file.

parenthesis15y ago

Yes you are right. I have absolutely no recollection of tweaking this, but it seems it has been done. (I just checked a different, definitely unadulterated 10.3.x install, and it doesn't have the Finder quit menu item.) Thanks for correcting me.

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parenthesis15y ago

Well, that's funny, because I'm using vanilla OS X 10.3.4 right now, and I just quit the Finder in the way that I said.

Screenshots:

http://www.alexmaslin.org/quit-finder.jpg

http://www.alexmaslin.org/no-finder.jpg

It doesn't relaunch automatically. You either have to click on the Finder icon in the Dock, or otherwise it relaunches itself if you quit all other open applications.

philwelchOP15y ago

That's extremely funny, but I'm almost completely certain that's not as "vanilla" as you think it is. Perhaps it was enabled on the command line? It looks like

  defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES

will do the trick. So perhaps you're operating from a custom com.apple.finder preferences file.

parenthesis15y ago

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