relaunch finder on your mac

the issue: sometimes clicks on your mac don’t respond (ex. clicking on items in your dock doesn’t do anything, or clicking on items on your desktop doesn’t do anything) – this is likely because the finder froze up. i’m a mac lover, but yes, it happens…

the solution: restart your finder. there are 2 ways you can do it:

the geeky way
open up a terminal (woohoo! command line! w00t!) and type the following. it will kill the finder process and then restart automatically:

killall -KILL Finder

the not-so-geeky way
ctrl + option and click on the finder in your dock. unfortunately, sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn’t. if not, try the geeky way :)