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El Capitan: danger of a hard restart?
My Finder is hung and removing this file did not fix it:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com. apple.find er.plist
Should I do a hard restart?
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.
Should I do a hard restart?
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I assume the change you mean was the removal of that plist file?
I have not been able to reboot, so no.
I am about to hard reboot. Is that my only option?
I have not been able to reboot, so no.
I am about to hard reboot. Is that my only option?
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I can not get to Safe Mode unless I hard restart.
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Yes, and it worked!
Yay!
Yay!
Thanks for the update and Good News!
You could have force quit the finder first. There are numerous ways to force quit. A hard restart is basically a force quit of the entire system.
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But, just doing a hard restart does not mean I automatically must restore, right? That's just the worst case scenario.
Thanks