7 articles tagged force quit.
With Macs getting more and more powerful all the time, it’s becoming far too easy to minimise an application window, and then forget about it – but the apps, processes and software that’s running on your Mac has a huge impact on your laptop’s overall performance. Even if you haven’t noticed a drop in your […]
Most of the time, turning off your Mac is as simple as selecting ‘Apple > Shut Down’ from the menu bar, but occasionally your Mac may refuse to shut down as expected. Maybe your Mac is taking longer to power down than normal; perhaps there’s a particular app that keeps getting in the way of […]
When you’re using your Mac, it’s possible you may encounter macOS’ “The application application.app is not open anymore” error – even when though this application is still open, and may even be clearly visible onscreen. Typically, once you’ve encountered this error the application in question will become unresponsive and you’ll be unable to close and […]
Does it feel like you’re stuck in an infinite loop of iCloud errors? Perhaps you’re constantly being interrupted by “This Mac cannot connect to iCloud because of a problem with <email address>” messages? Or, maybe iCloud is being more cryptic, and displaying the not-especially helpful “An unknown error occurred” message? While you can often dismiss […]
When you try to send a message in macOS’ Messages app, you may occasionally encounter the following error: “There was an error sending the previous message. Would you like to send it again?” However, sometimes this error may pop up seemingly out of nowhere, including when you’ve just rebooted your Mac, or brought it out […]
Whether the problem lies with a single app or the operating system in general, we’ve all experienced our MacBook locking up at some point. Although freezes should become less and less common with each release of MacOS, even if your MacBook only locks up occasionally, that doesn’t make it any less annoying when it does happen!
Occasionally in Mac OS X, it may be necessary to force a program or process to quit. For example, if a particular program fails to respond or unexpectedly hangs. Every application on a Mac comprises of one or more processes. It’s usually possible to use the Force Quit command (⌘⌥ esc) in the Apple Menu, but […]
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