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The steps here were simple, but unexpected:

  1. download a file
  2. in finder, rename the file using Keyboard:
    1. Press Enter to start rename
    2. Start typing a new name (but not pressing Enter again)
  3. Try to open the file by pressing Command-O

Now this dialog appears and won't go away (it only reacts on moving with the mouse, but clicking on it fails, just as pressing Spacebar, Enter or Esc).

Both Finder and Spotlight now refuse to open any other file.

I tried:

killall -KILL Dock
killall -KILL Finder
killall -KILL NotificationCenter
killall -KILL SystemUIServer

Help (:

Note the file is not damaged, just renamed.

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  • unless the file is confidential, could you provide the source for it so I can test. – Ruskes Jul 20 '15 at 19:47
  • what happens if you do press enter after tying the new name ? – Ruskes Jul 20 '15 at 21:28
  • @Buscar웃SD The file is in a DropBox folder. It synced to another machine where I verified the file is indeed valid, even after the rename synced as well. I didn't even have to press Enter to finish the rename: the switching away from Finder did that for me. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Jul 21 '15 at 4:17
  • Thanks for clarifying. So you are renaming a file that is in the Dropbox folder. What happens if you move it out of it, just to see if it has anything to do with the sync link. – Ruskes Jul 21 '15 at 4:33
  • Didn't help. The dialog was blocking for any PDF to open in finder. Probably a bug somewhere. Killing the process under it solves the issue. – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers Jul 21 '15 at 5:05
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Search for OS X identify process by window I found What process owns a certain window (Mac OS X) which told me this after moving the Window:

RetinaMBPro1TB:bin jeroenp$ ./show-recently-moved-windows.py 
Move target window

List of windows that moved:
{(
        {
        kCGWindowAlpha = 1;
        kCGWindowBounds =         {
            Height = 1094;
            Width = 1130;
            X = 43;
            Y = 45;
        };
        kCGWindowIsOnscreen = 1;
        kCGWindowLayer = 0;
        kCGWindowMemoryUsage = 5246548;
        kCGWindowName = "bin \U2014 Python \U2014 160\U00d776";
        kCGWindowNumber = 23921;
        kCGWindowOwnerName = Terminal;
        kCGWindowOwnerPID = 357;
        kCGWindowSharingState = 1;
        kCGWindowStoreType = 2;
    },
        {
        kCGWindowAlpha = 1;
        kCGWindowBounds =         {
            Height = 153;
            Width = 420;
            X = 1359;
            Y = 182;
        };
        kCGWindowIsOnscreen = 1;
        kCGWindowLayer = 8;
        kCGWindowMemoryUsage = 390292;
        kCGWindowName = "";
        kCGWindowNumber = 23246;
        kCGWindowOwnerName = CoreServicesUIAgent;
        kCGWindowOwnerPID = 87976;
        kCGWindowSharingState = 1;
        kCGWindowStoreType = 2;
    }
)}

Since CoreServicesUIAgent is the owner, I performed this:

killall -KILL CoreServicesUIAgent

That worked. Now I can open the PDF again.

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    "killall -KILL CoreServicesUIAgent" helped in another freezed process thx – BG BRUNO Jul 6 '20 at 14:20
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The icon in the dialog box is the clue. It's something to do with Gatekeeper. This article from Apple https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202491 might help.

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