Detectx app mac os x#
Detectx app mac#

I wouldn’t restart, having a lot of applications open. I chose that menu item and got the “Finder is not open anymore” message (not self explanatory…). Right clicking shown a contextual menu with only one menu (I don’t remember its exact name “View”, I think). I’ve had this problem as well, for the first time. Have you seen this weird “Application is not open anymore”error before on your Mac? Did forcing the app to relaunch work to resolve it for you? Let us know in the comments. Why this happens isn’t entirely clear, but it appears that the application that claims to no longer be open, yet appears to be open, is simply stuck in some sort of crash or unresponsive loop.

Detectx app mac#

Rarely, rebooting the Mac is required to fix this issue, and typically that is only necessary if the application throwing the “application is not open anymore” message has many associated or child processes that are also stuck that you haven’t been able to successfully track down in Activity Monitor to force quit. The app should open without a hitch, allowing you to go back to what you were doing with that application in question. The next best approach is to use Activity Monitor, found in /Applications/Utilities/ and then narrow down the application name or associated process and kill the process directly.įorcing the app or related process to quit is typically sufficient, and you should now be able to relaunch the application in question without seeing the “Application is not open anymore” error message. Sometimes you’ll discover the application mentioned in the dialog box is not included in the Force Quit Applications menu, which means you’ll need to rely on another method to force the app to exit. For example, if the app is “Preview” then you’d hit Command+Option+Escape and target the Preview app to force quit.

The simplest first troubleshooting trick is to simply force quit the Mac app that is mentioned in the dialog box. Fixing “Application is not open anymore” by Quitting the Associated Process

Detectx app mac os x#

Nonetheless, Mac OS and Mac OS X think the app isn’t open despite the fact that it looks open, so in order to regain access to the application in question you’ll need to kill the associated app or process.

The “Application is not open anymore” error is typically associated with the application in question becoming unresponsive and unusable, but it still remains shown as open in the Dock and often windows and associated items appear on screen still as if it is open.