It didn't work for me. I did find what I thought was a way, in terminal: killall Finder but Airdrop is still blank on my Mac, even though my older Mac (which has a mouse connected, so i cheated there) now show my new Mac in Airdrop. A restart it is then... On May 30, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Rod Skene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, this might work. Go to the doc, focus on Finder, VO command F5 to move > the mouse cursor to the VO cursor, control option number pad five to simulate > a right-click with the option key. > > I tried this and saw a re launch option at the bottom of the menu. I hope > this works for you. Rod Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please > excuse any errors. > > On 30/05/2013, at 8:37 PM, Jessica Moss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't think so; I've tried to do that several times, and the finder never >> actually relaunches, and in the end you have to shut the machine down via >> the power button. I've unfortunately had to do that several times when I've >> tried to empty my recycle bin or copy a file, and one or the other gets hung >> up, and canceling the operation does nothing but say "stopping," but the >> operation never stops, just sits. >> On May 30, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Rod Skene wrote: >> >>> Will going to force application to close and restart Finder work? >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse any errors. >>> >>> On 30/05/2013, at 8:19 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> We have a 2007 Mac Mini on which I am going to enable Airdrop. Part of the >>>> process is to restart Finder, and to do that I have to hold down option >>>> while right-clicking the Finder icon. Obviously, I can't do that with VO, >>>> so what is the keyboard-only way to re-launch Finder? Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> Have a great day, >>>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
