
- #Mac restart finder process how to#
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- #Mac restart finder process mac#
(In the case of the 14,2 definition it's Mac-27ADBB7B4CEE8E61).
#Mac restart finder process how to#
If you do not know it, here's how to do that:
#Mac restart finder process mac#
In that file, find your used Mac Board ID. (NOTE: the AppStore version of TextWrangler will not allow this, see above). Open the original file in its original location with eg TextWrangler or BBEDit. In the Finder, press Command-Shift-G and enter this to go to find the file: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/amework/Versions/A/Resources/istĬopy this file and save it somewhere for restoration purposes later if needed. So that's all - removing an entry from a plist file. To change this, we have to remove the entry that tells the Finder it should use hardware image processing for your SMBIOS definition. the vanilla iMac 14,2 definition I use) incapable of showing images in Preview, as your hardware might not actually support hardware encoding/decoding but the Finder assumes it will because of this new setting. This makes some Mac SMBIOS definitions (e.g. Mojave installed an internal list of which Mac model can use hardware de-/encoding for images and other files. So here is what the problem is and what you do to solve it: This worked for me after everything else on the internet didn't worked: Flux (don't know why I still keep this one either)Īnd remember to clean up useless apps from your laptop.

Screenhero (don't know why I still keep it).Since this is now working for me, but in case it still doesn't for you, here are some apps that would normally be suspects but are NOT the cause. Make sure you order processes by name to see them all at once.Keep force-quitting until none of them are left Press the X stop-like button in the top leftįorce quit all instances of QuickLookSatellite.Open up Activity Monitor ( ⌘+Spacebar, type in Activity Monitor) It will take ~30s to a couple minutes depending on your machine.
#Mac restart finder process password#

I have been experiencing this ever since the Mojave update. A combination of the answers in here + killing all QuickLook-related processes fixed it for me.
