Can force shutdowns hurt a MacBook?

[Billy Shears]

I had Transmission freeze on my MacBook Pro 15 2018, and I couldn't force quit it, so I tried restarting it. Restart was stuck for couple of minutes so I forced shutdown by pressing Touch ID key. After the restart I opened up Transmission and again it froze, and this time I couldn't even restart it so I force shutdown again (so in the span of maybe 15 minutes I force shutdown'd 2 times) I deleted Transmission and I have no problems now, I'm just wondering whether those forced shutdowns could've hurted my Mac in any way? Thanks

 

[BLUEDOG314]

Nothing is impossible, but I say physically no it will be fine. Sudden power loss can result it loss of files in some cases but APFS helps mitigate this.

 

[internetrando]

You should always try to avoid forced shutdowns, because it does have the capability of corrupting system processes, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.

If you're really worried about it, just open disk utility and run first aid.