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Permanently disable the Finder
Authored by: bugmenot on Jul 27, '06 07:32:45PM
The Quit menu is an excellent way to quit the Finder, but if you only have to do it once, it's easier to use AppleScript from Terminal. Just type
osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'
This quits the Finder nicely, like the quit menu does. The "killall Finder" suggestion in the hint works, but doesn't give it an opportunity to take care of its business before terminating the process. If you have a file transfer in progress, or any network operations going, killing it could leave files being written to in a unusable state. The same osascript command works for all GUI apps.

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