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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: adrianm on Jan 10, '04 11:10:44AM

Also, in Panther (maybe before), option+click on Finder in dock forces it to restart.



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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: johnq on Jan 10, '04 03:46:32PM

"Also, in Panther (maybe before), option+click on Finder in dock forces it to restart."

That's not quite right (I don't mean grammatically). Should have been:

Also, in Panther (maybe before), Option-click-and-hold on the Finder icon in the Dock reveals a "Relaunch" command in the pop-up menu.

Let's try to be exact for the sake of those trying to learn something new:

Option-clicking an icon other than the application you are currently in switches to that other application and hides all others.

Option-clicking on the icon for the application you are currently in will switch to the last used application, if any.

Once you have switched to an application via Option-clicking, you can return to the previous application by Option-clicking the icon again. It will forever cycle between the two applications.

Option-clicking any running application's Dock icon once switches to the previously used application and hides others. Option-clicking the same icon a second time brings you back again to the icon's application, hiding others applications.

Example:
- You are in Safari, iTunes is running.
- You Option-click the iTunes icon.
- It switches you to iTunes and hides all other applications
- If you then Option-click the the iTunes icon again it will switch you to Safari and hide iTunes and all other applications.

Option-clicking-and-holding on a running application's Dock icon will show the menu but changes "Hide" and "Quit" to "Hide Others" and "Force Quit" (except Finder which adds a "Relaunch" item because it doesn't normally have a "Quit" command). Releasing/pressing Option while the menu is exposed will show it toggle.

Command-clicking a Dock icon will open it's application's parent folder in the Finder and select the original application.

As a good habit to get into, adding Control to the mix will make the Dock menus open with no intentional delay. So anytime you want to make a Dock menu appear, whether by Option-click-and-hold or just click-and-hold, just instead add Control before you click.



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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: mistercow on Jan 10, '04 04:45:24PM

Option-clicking an application icon that is not open, or is not currently in the front does not hide all other applications. It hides the current application. So if you option click the icon for iTunes while Safari is in the front, it will switch to iTunes, and hide for Safari.

Option-clicking the current application icon hides the current application.



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Recover from the Finder's spinning beachball
Authored by: fabrizio on Jan 10, '04 05:29:48PM

To hide all other apps you have to command-option-click the icon in dock. Option-click will hide only the active app.



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