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Force quit stuck applications from the dock
I've frequently had the same problem as the previous comment, namely that I can do force quit many times, over and over again, but nothing quits, no matter which approach I use, and I eventually have to do a power off and restart. I have had this happen mainly in Preview and in Excel. I read a tip to go to ~library(my user library)/preferences/com.apple.preview.plist and to trash that, and this seems to have worked for now for preview. I am a little less eager to trash the plist file for Excel, since I don't want to lose all of my previous special settings.
Force quit stuck applications from the dock
I've noticed similar behavior (using "Force Quit" from a Dock menu doesn't work all the time). Using bringing up the force quit floating (Command - Option - Escape) and quitting from the offending process from there usually quits the app on the first try. In rare circumstances I have to open the terminal and use kill [pid].
Lately, I have been using Escape Pod and it seems to be the quickest, most surefire way to quit the frontmost app every time. If the "frozen" application is not the front most, I select it by Command-Tabbing through the dock and then invoke Escape Pod. Give it a try if you are having further problems. |
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