How to quit AND relaunch Finder in same script?

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#1

I’ve been trying to write a simple script that goes:

tell application “Finder” to quit
tell application “Finder” to launch

The script quits Finder okay, but then doesn’t launch it again. A script with just the 2nd line in it alone will happily launch Finder once it’s been quit, but I can’t get both lines to work consecutively in the same script - aragh…

So what am I doing wrong? Do scripts drop themselves out after Finder is quit, or is there maybe some syntax I’m missing here to get the launch to happen after the quit?

  • padmavyuha
#2

For some reason, you’ve got to give the Finder a little time to totally disengage before trying to launch it again. Try this code:

Jon

#3

I would even try the following


try
tell application "Finder" to quit
end try
delay 2
tell application "Finder" to activate

In some cases, the Finder may quit without returning the necessary AppleEvents, and causing Applescrip’s to raise an error ‘Invalid Connexion’

#4

This will relaunch the finder, but it doesn’t start it up in the same state you left it.

do shell script "kill -1 `ps aucx | grep Finder | awk '{print $2}'` "
#5

In the end, I found that:

try
     tell application "Finder" to quit
end try
delay 2
tell application "Finder" to activate

works the best - it’ll work from e.g. YoupiKey (or iKey as it’s now known) but it won’t work from e.g. Big Cat as a CMM-run script, presumably because quitting the Finder shuts down the CMM scripting capability. When I say ‘work’ I mean both quit AND relaunch Finder - just quitting it is no problem!

Thanks for the various responses…