[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]
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I set my wife up with a separate user account and Fast User Switching so she could use Mail and Safari. I mistakenly rebooted from her account after adding a new screensaver. At the time, she had about four apps booted, while on my side, I had over 35. But the thing went into reboot as though my account didn't exist at all -- 30 seconds is all it took, compared to up to five minutes from my side. It dawned on me that anyone could create a basic user for just such a use. Some dock icons were moved around, but rebooting again after setting things back resulted in no changes.
[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]
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Restart quickly via fast user switching
I'm not sure what exactly he means by this... If you try to shut down or restart the computer while two users are logged in, a dialog comes up asking for an administrator's username and password, informing you that by continuing all other users will lose unsaved changes. My understanding (and perhaps I'm wrong here) is that OS X will basically just kill every process belonging to that user without giving it a chance to clean up after itself. While most programs should deal with this OK, I'm still reluctant to come anywhere near endorsing that as a good thing to be doing on a semi-regular basis. Besides the obvious problem of losing all your unsaved documents, programs leave temp files around, preferences might not be saved, a program could be killed in the middle of writing important data to disk and in the process corrupt a data file. I'm not saying any of this will happen, but it still seems like a poor thing to be doing unless absolutely necessary.
Restart quickly via fast user switching
Sounds to me like it just restarted the login partition and not the core system.
Restart quickly via fast user switching
This is not true, I have 3 user accounts set-up, 2 of them are admin accounts, one is a regular user. Whenever you try to reboot in either one account you have to supply an admin username + password.
Restart quickly via fast user switching
here's my question:
Restart quickly via fast user switching
READ! He said: "I mistakenly rebooted from her account after adding a new screensaver."
Restart quickly via fast user switching
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READ! He said: "I mistakenly rebooted from her account after adding a new screensaver." So: he acknowledges that is was a mistake to do in the first place, but doing something mistakenly, he thought he discovered something new and is sharing that with the rest of the world! --- He doesn't "acknowledge it was a mistake to do in the first place". He seems to be saying that the mistake part was not that he rebooted, but that he "rebooted from her account". For all we know he still thinks you need to reboot anytime you add screensavers.
Bad/Misleading hint.
Equally true: Pressing and holding the power button on your mac for 3 to 5 seconds will immediately turn it off without the tedious process of shutting it down.
force-quit loginwindow process!!
If you want to log out fast, that's the way to go: kill loginwindow in Activity Monitor... no need to switch user.
Restart quickly via fast user switching
You can do the same thing by opening a terminal session (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and typing:
Then enter your password. This will -- as others have pointed out -- simply terminate any open applications. It is a very fast way to reboot, though.
No "now" switch for reboot
I think you are getting reboot confused with the shutdown utility:
For the reboot utility, it is simply:
(no now switch is necessary)
reboot vs shutdown -r now
I used to think that the preferred command for instant restarting from the command line was "shutdown -r now" as opposed to "reboot". But for the searching I have patience for right now, the omnigoogle says that the two commands are functionally equivalent.
reboot vs shutdown -r now
If the OS X man pages are correct, shutdown -r and reboot are definitely NOT equivalent. The reboot command seems to just flush the filesystem cache, send first a SIGTERM and then a SIGKILL to all processes, and reboot. |
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