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How do you close a program if it freezes on you
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If you can't get Finder to respond in the ways mentioned already, Alt/Option + Command + Escape key will bring up a force quit window.
The GEEK method would involve opening a Terminal session, invoking top, locating the PID of the frozen program, and then casting a 'Kill -9 [PID]' (do not use the quotes or the square brackets). This will terminate with extreme prejudice ANY process regardless of its state. (Ahh the joys of the UNIX command line)
Sopranino
Sopranino
Hehe, that's what I do when the rest does not work
But most of the times activity monitor can fix the issue 
Is this better than just using "killall ProgramName" because sometime EyeTV simply won't quit even when using the above command. Will try the kill -9 PID next time it happens.
kill [PID] or killall [program name] asks the program nicely to quit. kill -9 [PID] or killall -9 [program name] forces it to quit.
sfisher is correct on this, but to put it into simpler words, kill -9 will terminate ANY program in ANY state. It's kinda like using a sandblaster on a soda cracker....... major overkill!!
Sopranino
Well sometimes overkill is needed *cough* EyeTV *cough* and the feeling of power is great.
Sopranino, dont lie.
What to do, if none of the above works?
I started out trying 'Force Quit' from the Dock, then i tried from the 'Force Quit...' dialog, and then i tried killall and kill, nothing works, and if i try to restart my mac, it just hangs, so i need to power it off by holding the power button down.
I try this sometimes, also with other applications, and it sucks.
This will NEVER happen in Linux, you can always kill applications in Linux
What to do, if none of the above works?
I started out trying 'Force Quit' from the Dock, then i tried from the 'Force Quit...' dialog, and then i tried killall and kill, nothing works, and if i try to restart my mac, it just hangs, so i need to power it off by holding the power button down.
I try this sometimes, also with other applications, and it sucks.
This will NEVER happen in Linux, you can always kill applications in Linux
I have also had this happen with the bracketed process. No way to kill, just have to turn off to reboot.
No way to kill process, and no way to re-run the program.
Is there a resolution to this??
No way to kill process, and no way to re-run the program.
Is there a resolution to this??
Sopranino, dont lie.
What to do, if none of the above works?
I started out trying 'Force Quit' from the Dock, then i tried from the 'Force Quit...' dialog, and then i tried killall and kill, nothing works, and if i try to restart my mac, it just hangs, so i need to power it off by holding the power button down.
I try this sometimes, also with other applications, and it sucks.
This will NEVER happen in Linux, you can always kill applications in Linux
This will NEVER happen in Linux, you can always kill applications in Linux
That's weird because I tried to kill my copy of Adobe CS3 for Linux and it didn't work.
See the bit about the app freezing in the title of the thread...now sit down and think about your post.