Made a little script to close/open dock and finder

[Racer D]

hello all

I did this scriptie to easily close the finder and dock (it actually closes it, not relaunches) as they eat my ram and said I'll post it here, might be usefull for you guys

It's made in applescript, but runs as an application.

But everything ain't so easy You will have to open it with script editor and type in your admin password in order to use this

Use at your own risk, don't blame me if you loose your Finder.app or Dock.app
keep it in your script menu as you can't run it otherwise with finder and dock closed

A quick explanation what it does:
It renames the .app and closes it, so it can't reopen as it does not find it by the right name. The open renames it back and opens it

[edit: uploaded new version that stays open, so atleast you keep the menubar alive ]

 

[Racer D]

Always make sure you have some program running

just did this mistake and believe me it ain't a good feeling Got left with no menu bar on top, so I reb00ted and for a moment at logginf in saw the time and script icon just floating on desktop, quickly hit the script menu and ran my script

weird though, couldn't rename finder2.app to finder.app neither from os 9 or from command line (booted X in command line)

[ok kinda fixed (see first post) but still the warning remains ]

 

[seann]

source code?

 

[Racer D]

Attachment: dock & finder utility.sit

 

[seann]

ahh.. wasn't on a mac at the time, didn't have the ability to extract the file.

Assume the worst, expect the best!