How to unfreeze word on a mac without force quit

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I can confirm that this worked for me in Tiger time and again, and in particular, with Word. I haven't had Leopard long enough. I thought someone was accessing my system, and 'whoever it was' could tell when I was going to Activity Monitor to check it out. Well, i can confirm that, too.

Why does Mac keep freezing?

It happened very often, while watching youtube videos. Clicking on AM's window returns to normal behavior. Can anybody confirm this with Flash plugin 9.

Still would like to know a cure for the underlying occasional freezing problem, though Darklon on Feb 28, '08 This hint has worked on most applications for me, and has even caused the Finder to resume a few times. I thought it was just happening to me though. I don't totally understand processor queueing and execution levels, but it just sounds plausible to this uneducated layperson.

Not enough to force-shutdown the machine, but enough to show it who's boss. I don't think it's coincidence. It happened all the time with Tiger. I just installed Leopard, so I can't say if it still happens with Lost your password? Powered by the Parse. More Mac Sites: Macworld MacUser iPhone Central. Possibly unfreeze a process with Activity Monitor Feb 19, '08 I don't know why this works, but it does seem to work like magic: When you have an application hang, try launching Activity Monitor.

Possibly unfreeze a process with Activity Monitor - Mac OS X Hints

When I do this, especially with hangs in Photoshop, within seconds, the application resumes. Sometimes I've waited and waited, as long as maybe 10 minutes or more, for an application to come out of the "beach ball" mode on its own. Then, after launching Activity Monitor, I would hear the hard drive churn, and the application would become responsive again. I have no clue why it works. I know it doesn't seem to make sense, why an application that monitors processes would have any effect on them.

But it works like a charm many times.

Of course, there are times when it doesn't work either, but it's worth a shot. This is the first I've heard of Activity Monitor releasing an app from beach ball land through the simple act of running it. If anyone else has had similar experiences, please share. The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. Possibly unfreeze a process with Activity Monitor Authored by: Chanoine on Feb 19, '08 Stormchild on Feb 19, '08 Authored by: Whenever you're working on something you can't afford to lose, save it regularly as you work.

If you'd saved your project every five minutes, the most you could lose to a freeze-up is 5 minutes of work. Unfortunately, I doubt that there's any way you can save your three hours' labor now. You can't unfreeze without risking data loss, all you can do is wait for a longer period of time to see if it unfreezes spontaneously, but don't get your hopes up.

Quit an unresponsive macOS application

Mar 8, I found out how to retrieve any unsave states or files after this happend to me and almost deleted 4 hours of typing. Mar 9, 1: The OP didn't bother to specify which OS version he was using, so, whether or not he can benefit from it is an open question. Mar 9, 5: Pages frozen Depending on the app and what you were doing with it, performing a Force Quit on your MacBook might result in the loss of some of your work. For example, if you were editing a proposal in Mac Pages and performed a Force Quit on that program, you might lose some of the changes you made, but probably not the document itself.

In rare instances, your Mac might be completely frozen.

If your Mac has been in this state for several minutes, your best bet is to turn off the power to your Mac. Before turning it back on, unplug any external devices, such as cameras or scanners, that might have caused the hang-up. Your Mac will automatically restore the apps and documents that were open at the time it was shut down. When you shut down normally, a dialog box appears that lets you choose whether to restart all your apps or not. Chicago native John Papiewski has decades of IT consulting experience, and has worked with a wide range of businesses including finance, real estate, distribution and publishing.

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