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After forced quit, “killall Finder” says “No matching processes…” but PID still exists?

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Mar 15, 202614128 views
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Here's one for ya. Upon a forced quit of the Finder with unsuccessful relaunch, "killall Finder" in terminal returns: Oddly enough, the PID for finder does actually show up after a "ps -A" to reveal all processes. But the time is perpetually listed as 0:00:00, upon repeated PID listings. I tried th…

Error Output

"No matching processes belonging to you were found"

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Fix for: After forced quit, “killall Finder” says “No matching processes…” but PID still exists?

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There's easy and slightly harder. First easy, you could probably use Activity Monitor to force quit it. Harder, and the reason you're getting this message, is because your user didn't launch Finder, the system 'owns' it - you can only kill it if you…

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