On Nov 24, 2006, at 4:54 PM, nk wrote: > OK..I did resort to that, and it worked...Finder took a bit to > "come back," tho..but all is well now. > > but, is "Copy" a process that can be identified and killed with > Activity Monitor or Terminal? I haven't tried with "Copy" specifically, but you should be able to use the killall -u Copy command. Experiment with something such as the Dock, which will automatically restart after being killed. Use man killall to learn more about the command. Tom K.