If I OPTION + RIGHT CLICK
on the Finder icon, I get a "Relaunch" option in the context menu. I would like to programmatically relaunch Finder, if at all possible. I'm sure there is a better way to do it than to just kill it and let it restart. Assume I have the proper authorization / permissions to do so already.
Additionally, I would like to restart Spotlight as well.
Send it a quit event using AppleScript, then send it an activate event:
//tell Finder to quit
NSAppleScript *restartFinder = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:@"tell application \"Finder\" to quit"];
[restartFinder executeAndReturnError:nil];
EDIT: add a delay to make sure Finder is ready to receive an activate event. On my machine, sometimes it needs this delay, sometimes it doesn't:
//delay 1 second
restartFinder = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:@"delay 1"];
[restartFinder executeAndReturnError:nil];
(...end EDIT)
//tell Finder to activate
restartFinder = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:@"tell application \"Finder\" to activate"];
[restartFinder executeAndReturnError:nil];
Finder is kept alive by the system, so you can just kill it and it will automatically relaunch. I use killall Finder
to accomplish this.
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