Restart a 'Not Responding' Butler

Jun 12, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: donkeyotay

I found this out by accident. If Butler hangs, double-click on the icon in Applications (or wherever you have it) and it will start responding again. This also works by invoking Butler from Spotlight. I'm not sure if this works with other applications as well.

[robg adds: I've noticed that Butler only seems to hang when there's a dialog in another app that it's not expecting. For instance, I use Butler to control iTunes. But if I opened an iTunes dialog at some point -- maybe to enter a password -- and didn't finish, then Butler will hang when I tell it to switch songs. As soon as I close the dialog, though, Butler returns to normal.]

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