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FYI - there's a quicker way to relaunch Finder: hold option and right click the Finder icon in your dock, and there will be a new "Relaunch" item at the bottom
by hbn 4y ago
FYI - there's a quicker way to relaunch Finder: hold option and right click the Finder icon in your dock, and there will be a new "Relaunch" item at the bottom of the menu
- clairity 4y agoi actually keep finder off (force-quit via activity monitor) until i need it, preferring to use spotlight for simple file finding. it otherwise uses not only too much memory but also too much cpu time (and hence battery).
- mrgalaxy 4y agoFinder just relaunches when you force quit it in Activity Monitor? Is there something else you had to do to get it to not relaunch? Also, I'm not sure how much you are saving by doing that. My Finder uses 0% CPU when not being actively used.
- clairity 4y agomine doesn't relaunch, but i honestly don't remember how i changed that behavior, sorry! dunno why, but my finder uses 2-5% constantly when running, and spawns a bunch of other processes (like mdworker) as well, which also suck away battery. better to keep it off for me.
- nicwolff 4y agomdworker is what keeps your simple Spotlight file search working ツ
- clairity 4y agowell yes (and also for backing up i believe), but at least for me, there aren't tons of files that i care about which change often, so i don't need it constantly going off and cataloging the latest homebrew updates or whatever.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoYou can exclude opt and any other directories full of frequently changing files you don't care about spotlight indexing.
- clairity 4y agoah yes, i should look into doing that.
- solarkraft 4y agoWhy isn't that the default?
- lapcat 4y agodefaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES
- sharikous 4y agoI think that it doesn't work in Monterey
- jdlshore 4y agoI just tried it. The menu item was there, although I didn't click it.