Brad, Wow. How do you keep all those keyboard shortcuts in your head? I never knew about using the shift key with that combination to make it a quick and dirty force shutdown.
Dave Carlson Oregonian, Woodworker, Farfar, Engineer, Musician [email protected] On Feb 1, 2023, at 2:01 PM, Bradford Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: The keyboard command CMD + OPT + Escape, will open the Force Quit dialog. Using CMD + OPT + Shift + Escape, will Force Quit the current app, or restart Finder without opening the Force Quit dialog. HTH. - Brad - On Feb 1, 2023, at 15:33, Kaare Dehard <[email protected]> wrote: There is an issue with finder on and off in Ventura. If it gives the no window message cmd-option-escape will allow you to re-launch the finder and may solve the concern. > On Feb 1, 2023, at 4:31 PM, 'Mary Ward' via MacVisionaries > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. This is not an older Mac, it’s a 2020 M1. SO I guess I will > disconnect all the external drives, all three of them, and restart. I > neglected to say that when the Finder stops working, I have to open a program > like Mail to shut down the computer at all, and it might take it several > minutes to do it. > > I just disconnected all the external drives, I have three, and I hope I don’t > lose them all as one of them is my Time Machine backup. The Mac turned on > very quickly. SO Now I guess I will start trying to reconnect these things. > What fun. > > >> On Feb 1, 2023, at 3:19 PM, Herbie Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> There could be a number of things. The age of your Mac, the cord, or the >> drive itself. If yours is an older Mac though, that is most likely the >> issue. Restart your mac and then plug in the drive. When you open it, give >> the drive a couple minutes to load. There could also be a formatting issue. >> >>> On Feb 1, 2023, at 15:13, 'Mary Ward' via MacVisionaries >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello. I bought a nice big hard disc to store books, movies, and music on. >>> It is connected to my Mac mini via a cable. I got messages saying that it >>> had not been ejected properly, though, of course, it had not been ejected >>> at all. If I try to go to my external drives, the finder just stops >>> working altogether. SO right now, I am running first aid on the one of >>> them that I can see. But is there anything else I can do besides either >>> give up or call AppleCare? By the way, when the Finder stops working, I >>> can’t open files from anywhere and apps like TextEdit won’t launch either, >>> though Mail and Safari still work. Does this necessarily mean that the >>> external disc is corrupted? Do I need to go further than just the Disc >>> Utility? 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