Questions tagged [force-quit]
Force Quit is a way to quit an app how stops responding on your Mac or iDevice. There is several way to call for a Force Quit on macOs, the most current one being pressing the Option, Command, and Esc keys together.
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How can I remove unintended localization of the Force Quit Applications dialog?
Last Friday I updated my MacBook Pro (16", Nov '23) to macOS Sequoia (15.0). The OS language is English, but since the update, the body of the Force Quit Applications dialog is in Dutch:
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App icons are displayed incorrectly on the Force Quit window!
The app icons in the "Force Quit" window are displaying incorrectly. I have seen this issue on various macOS versions, including Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave:
I have reset my ...
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Suddenly, newly installed or updated apps won't launch
Running Big Sur, v11.7.4, fully up to date, on a MacBook Air, Early 2014, as a Standard user (with known Admin credentials).
I did recently install an update to Big Sur maybe a few days ago, but as I ...
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Force Quit Applications appears when memory is not full
I have a Macbook 14" ( M1 Pro ) with 16GB of RAM.
However, the Force Quit Applications window pops up when I surpass the ~10GB of RAM utilization.
Even if I close some applications, this window ...
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How can I prevent Chrome from reopening when it quits?
When I quit the Google Chrome web browser, it automatically reopens –– it won't stay closed! I tried quitting with Chrome –> Quit Google Chrome and Command-Q. How can I prevent Chrome from ...
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How to quit an app that can't be stopped from the menu bar?
I need to uninstall the "mate translate" app, but cannot stop it from the menu bar: the app has no menu when I select it.
The app doesn't appear in "Force Quit" either.
How can I ...
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macOS - How do I force quit an app using the same machanism the system Force Quit menu uses from command line?
I'm on macOS Monterey and this is the system Force Quit menu:
I know how to quit or kill an app from command line, either using osascript or kill / killall - but they don't do the exact same thing ...
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"Magic keys" to force a reboot of a hung macOS system via root-level reboot command?
Have had some problems from time to time on macOS 12.x where it hangs indefinitely. I'm working with Apple engineers on a resolution, but I'd like to figure out how to set up a method to send the ...
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Can't force quit application even in Activity Monitor (AnyTransToolHelpers)
I installed AnyTrans. I uninstalled it soon after. But, I can't seem to get my mac to stop running some helper that seems to somehow be leftover.
I have tried:
going into activity monitor, selecting ...
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Force Quit preview, and now it won't open the same document I was viewing all day
I was editing this file, and marking it up, highlighting etc, adding picture to it (as described in Add images to existing PDF with Preview), when suddenly Preview froze up and would not budge for a ...
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How to reset the force quit window's dimensions
my force quit window accidentally resized itself so it's wide. It's not taking up the whole screen but apparantally this is the least wide it can get.
This it what it looks like right now
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How to Quit by default X11 when shutting down
When I shutdown my computer I am having followin pop-up for X11, by default I want to always Quit instead of manually clicking.
[Q] How to accept by defualt Quit for X11 when it is closed?
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Macbook Pro semi-frozen
My mac is in a weird state without particular reason.
It is awake, but mouse clicks don't work, so I can't open any menus or apps.
If I shut the lid, it locks after a while, but not immediately. When ...
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Force quit on a MacBook that uses a touchbar
I have a 2018 MacBook Pro with a Touchbar. Sometimes it will freeze up and I cannot access the Apple menu to run Force quit. Normally, you would be able to use Command+Option+Esc.
However, the ...
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When shutting down, how to automatically override an app prompt that interrupts the process? [duplicate]
I've scheduled a daily 1:00 AM shutdown of my MacBook but an app interrupts the process with a prompt that I need to manually answer before the shutdown can continue. How do I force an automatic ...
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Cmd+Option+Esc not working in macOS Mojave 10.14.5
I'm on macOS Mojave 10.14.5 and I'm trying to kill a process. I tried cmd+option+esc to bring up the task manager, but nothing showed up.
How do I bring up the task manager?
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How to force quit an app that doesn't show in the Force Quit Applications menu? [duplicate]
I have an app running that is showing in my statusbar icon menu, but it's rainbowing - I can't click on it or interact with it in any way.
The same application doesn't show in my Force Quit ...
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Can I close Finder application? [duplicate]
It looks like Finder can't be closed with Command+Q shortcut.
Command+W works though but it's not the same as Command+Q.
And there is not option for Finder to be closed whatsoever, only Hide.
Why ...
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Force quit closed application
I force quit Google Chrome by right-clicking the app icon in the Dock and selecting Force Quit. That seemed to quit Chrome (absence of indicator under app icon). However, when I try opening Google ...
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MacBook Air heating up and lagging for no apparent reason
Earlier today I had a few apps open, and one of them was Safari, which had some tabs open which may have been using a lot of energy and/or memory.
(One of them was this program by me which draws a ...
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The application is not open anymore
I am trying to open Discord.app but it doesn't open, instead I get a box that says
The application "Discord.app" is not open anymore.
I press cmd shift esc and I can see Discord.app in the list, ...
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How can I kill/launch wifi from terminal
Linked to this
Is there any way to literally kill wifi (wifi process/wifi related processes?) and then launch/relaunch it, all with terminal?
maybe sudo killall WiFiAgent?
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R Studio Quitting Session Failure on Mac
I have problems quitting R studio on Macbook Air after working tirelessly for over 12 hours and a large dataset. May I get help because my computer wont shut down now?
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Mojave has apps in a zombie state, neither launched nor quit
I'm experiencing an unusual problem that is affecting many of the apps I use on a regular basis, including (but not limited to): Adobe Illustrator CC 2019, Sublime Text 3, FileZilla, and even Apple's ...
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Can't restart Mac: Finder not responding or «not open anymore» & other culprits
First-timer here.
I have been experiencing several serious-looking problems with my MacBook (OSX Yosemite 10.10.5, model MacBookPro10,1: Mid 2012 Retina, 16GB RAM, 768GB SSD) for a while now, the ...
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Cannot shut down computer due to app not responding
I have a 2012-ish MBP and I am using it to develop iOS apps using Xcode. This app stops responding relatively frequently, but usually I can just force quit it and open it again. However, this time I ...
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Possible consequences of forced shut down
System specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2,9 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
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Cannot force quit an application, which is not listed in processes but wont let computer shut down
I was running a computationally intensive code from Rstudio, and it stopped responding. I used forcequit on the app, and tried to restart my computer. Although Rstudio wont show on ps -ax, mac refuses ...
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Quit if idle for X time, problem when saved script as app
I got a small script that quit app when the computer is idle for X amount of time. It works fine but if I save it as an app and start it, I can't quit it. Result is I have to force quit my script app ...
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Force quit app still listed in Force Quit Applications window
Sometimes, when I try to force quit an app after it fails to quit using command ⌘+q, it doesn't appear to work. It still shows up in the dock as if it is running, still shows the app in the list when ...
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How to quit all Finder tabs
I've configured OSX to force all Finder windows to open in tabs - because this really takes care of all the clutter.
The thing is, there's a shortcut to close all Finder windows, CMD+OPTION+W - and ...
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How to force quit the "Force Quit Applications" window
The "Force Quit Applications" window opened spontaneously due to memory pressure.
Now I can't close the "Force Quit Applications" window itself . The "X" button doesn't close the window and it doesn'...
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How to force quit non responsive wifi dialog
I have two non responsive wifi dialogs.
They don't go away with cancel, and they don't offer the join option.
They don't appear in the activity monitor.
I don't know what the process is called, I ...
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Why does Preview remain active in the background?
I have noticed quite a few times that after viewing a particular image and quitting Preview manually, Preview still remains active in the background sucking up huge chunks memory/RAM. It only stops ...
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Reboot application without restarting Mac
Whenever I try to open Preview on my MacBook, the application doesn't work and I need to force quit it. I would usually restart my Mac to resolve the issue, but I have some code running on the same ...
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Force Quit Keyboard Shortcut Not Working
I have a problem where the shortcut command+option+esc does not open the force quit menu. I've tried resetting the NVRAM and the SMC, but this did not fix the issue.
Also, sometimes when I reboot ...
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Want to delete app but can't force quit app through activity monitor
Downloaded the font manager FontYou, but since then the creators shut it down. I get an error message on startup from FontYou so have been trying to uninstall the app. I try to delete it in ...
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Can macOS be prevented from pausing an app when the system runs out of application memory?
I sometimes run distributed computing projects in BOINC Manager while my iMac is idle. Often, a Force Quit dialog appears displaying the message 'Your system has run out of application memory'. When ...
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How can I quit Steam on macOS 10.12 without force quitting?
Steam will not exit gracefully on macOS 10.12 Sierra. When selecting exit from the application menu or via secondary click on the app icon in the dock nothing happens. The process has to be terminated ...
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Stop macOS from asking to report to Apple every time I Force Quit an application
Every time I force quit an application from Activity Monitor, I get a pop-up saying "You have forced to quit. Click Report to see from detailed information and sent a report to Apple.". It ...
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Activity Monitor lagging and requires force quit? [closed]
Activity Monitor itself, any time I open it, lags horribly and shows a spinning "beach ball." It continues to lag horribly until I right click on it in the Dock, wait several seconds for the context ...
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Cannot shutdown/restart properly, force-quit fails, wunderlisthelper does not die
Alright, I had another initial post draft written, but then I just found something:
wunderlisthelper will not die...
kill -9 will cause it to reopen with another pid.
I keep hard killing it, and it ...
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Apps will not quit on Mac OS Sierra 2016 MacBook Pro
After getting my brand new 2016 MacBook Pro with Mac OS Sierra, I have noticed that apps such as Chrome, Mail, Spotify, anything really, randomly and intermittently do not shut down when I go to ...
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Pages stuck after force-quit in paused state
Today my application memory ran out and a prompt asked me to quit applications I did not require. I (force-)quit all my apps (there was no option to quit because the applications were 'paused'.
While ...
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