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Figure 8—Sleeping a MacBook Pro with an Apple remote
Tip 27
Restart a Jammed Finder
You can quickly reboot Finder if you see the “beach ball of death” by holding
down OPTION and right-clicking the Finder's icon in the Dock. Then select
Relaunch from the menu that appears.
Note that some people report that temporarily switching off Wi-Fi can also
recover a crashed Finder. It's not quite clear why this works, but it's probably
because Finder has gotten stuck while trying to access a network resource,
and turning off the network frees it up. To turn off Wi-Fi, click the Wi-Fi icon
at the top right of the screen and select Turn Wi-Fi Off. Then, when Finder
has recovered, click the icon again, and this time select Turn Wi-Fi On.
Tip 28
Quickly Get Documents into (and out of) iCloud
While editing a document in apps that are compatible with iCloud, you can
quickly move the file to iCloud—even if it has previously been saved on your
hard disk. To do so, click the filename in the title bar, and then select the
Move to iCloud entry from the menu that appears. Note that when it moves
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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