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AllaN01Bear

(23,053 posts) Mon Jul 17, 2023, 06:46 PM Jul 2023

hanging apps after attempt to close them.

im a mac driver . but mac has a unix filesystem called darwin which is a watered down version of berkley dsb which is a unix based os. i re learned a important lesson today. my webrowser refuses to close when i dismiss it . so , in this case , goto terminal, type killall, one word , and the name of your feisty app. bing, done .

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hanging apps after attempt to close them. (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Jul 2023 OP

See also "How to force an app to quit on your Mac" emulatorloo Jul 2023 #1

You can also fire up activity monitor, click on an app and quit it. usonian Jul 2023 #2

emulatorloo

(45,568 posts)

1. See also "How to force an app to quit on your Mac"

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Mon Jul 17, 2023, 06:51 PM

Jul 2023

For folks like me who are to lazy to mess w terminal:

Press these three keys together: Option (or Alt), Command, Esc (Escape).

Or choose Force Quit from the Apple menu  in the corner of your screen.

More here:

How to force an app to quit on your Mac
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201276

usonian

(13,848 posts)

2. You can also fire up activity monitor, click on an app and quit it.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Mon Jul 17, 2023, 08:13 PM

Jul 2023

Just for clarity, the OS is Darwin, the filesystem changed (it was transparent to everyone) from Mac OS Extended (HFS+) to APFS. (SURPRISE) right under our noses. It's just not backward compatible earlier than 10.13 High Sierra that I know of.

https://www.howtogeek.com/331042/whats-the-difference-between-apfs-macos-extended-hfs-and-exfat/

Darwin is based on BSD.

Intel apps run on Apple Silicon (M1 and M2 chips to date) via "Rosetta" emulation and it works well for me.
Old-timers will remember when an early version of Rosetta ran PowerPC apps on Intel CPU's.

Motorola MC68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel -> Apple Silicon (ARM)
Rosetta doesn't come installed with newer Macs but is a free download from Apple. Not sure why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)

Edit to add:
https://opensource.apple.com

Open Source projects at Apple. Limited.

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