Apple - How can I restart Finder when it keeps "stopping" an stopped copy process?
Next time this happens, look at the Finder process using ps
: First run this in a terminal:
launchctl list | grep Finder
The output should be just one line, listing com.apple.Finder
with a number at the beginning of the line. That number is the process ID (pid) of Finder. Now run
ps up xxx
replacing xxx by the pid found in the first step. Look under the STAT heading. If you see the letter U then the Finder is stuck in an uninterruptible system call, and cannot be killed. You will most likely need to restart your system to recover.
Processes stuck in an uninterruptible system call is often a symptom of a hardware problem. It would bear further investigations to find the cause.
killall Finder
If you don't have killall
brew install killall
if you don't have brew
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
if you don't have ruby
You have it, it comes with OSX