 Mac Closedown Problem, Stuffit is preventing my mac from closing |
 Sat 7 Apr 2007, 13:22
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I am new to Macs and am very very impressed with my Macbook.
However, I have encountered a problem. A program called stuffit failed to run properly so I took the cancel option. It has now hung and wont close down- continually promising that it is doing so. When I try to reboot the Mac is says that stuffit expander has cancelled a restart. Is there an equivalent in the windows alt-control-delete which will force stuffit to close? I have tried shift-command-Q and shift-Option-command-Q but neither will work. Any help would be appreciated. Paul  
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Sat 7 Apr 2007, 13:32
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QUOTE (paulnic @ Sat 7 Apr 2007, 08:22)  I am new to Macs and am very very impressed with my Macbook. However, I have encountered a problem. A program called stuffit failed to run properly so I took the cancel option. It has now hung and wont close down- continually promising that it is doing so. When I try to reboot the Mac is says that stuffit expander has cancelled a restart. Is there an equivalent in the windows alt-control-delete which will force stuffit to close? I have tried shift-command-Q and shift-Option-command-Q but neither will work. Any help would be appreciated. Paul command-option-esc will bring up a task list that you may be able to quit from there. also holding the power button for 5 sec. will shut it down. -------------------- |
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Sat 7 Apr 2007, 16:37
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 07-Apr 07 From: Herne Bay - UK Member No.: 90,096 |
QUOTE (lancet @ Sat 7 Apr 2007, 13:32) QUOTE (paulnic @ Sat 7 Apr 2007, 08:22) I am new to Macs and am very very impressed with my Macbook. However, I have encountered a problem. A program called stuffit failed to run properly so I took the cancel option. It has now hung and wont close down- continually promising that it is doing so. When I try to reboot the Mac is says that stuffit expander has cancelled a restart. Is there an equivalent in the windows alt-control-delete which will force stuffit to close? I have tried shift-command-Q and shift-Option-command-Q but neither will work. Any help would be appreciated. Paul command-option-esc will bring up a task list that you may be able to quit from there. also holding the power button for 5 sec. will shut it down. Many thanks - that worked fine. Its all a learning curve, but I knew Mac would have a solution. |
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Mon 9 Apr 2007, 09:05
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 Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 110 Joined: 20-Feb 04 From: ACT - AU Member No.: 36,296 |
DELETE STUFFFIT OFF YOUR COMPUTER
REset it Hold down Apple option P and R at the same time let your system ring 3 times (if it chimes two thats fine as long as u get adleast 2 chimes) then it will reset to default ....pram then do a scan disk in disk utility if that doesn't fix it Back your system up and reinstall all and not put on stuffit cheers |
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