Force Quitting Text Edit

Just spent hours gathering info on a Text Edit doc and now I have the endless rainbow (SBOD: Spinning Beachball of Death) icon. If I force quit, will I lose the doc -- I don't think I saved it!!

Hi, Dapple.
You wrote: "If I force quit, will I lose the doc -- I don't think I saved it!!"Yes, if you didn't save it. EVen then, changes made since the last save may be lost.
Unfortunately, TextEdit does not have an "auto-save" feature and if the TextEdit's Dock icon's contextual menu shows that it is "not responding" then you have no choice but to Force Quit TextEdit.
One should always periodically save documents they are editing, or configure the auto-save preferences of their applications, if any, to avoid such problems.
You might try some of the advice in my "Data Recovery" FAQ to see if any remnants of it can be recovered from disk, but I hold little hope for that.
If you want to look for an alternative to TextEdit, try Tex-Edit Plus. It is personal favorite for text editing: inexpensive shareware that has superb support and outstanding development. You can also configure its preferences to automatically save changes to a document at regular intervals once you have performed a first save of the document.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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https://discussions.apple.com/message/25279344#25279344
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set theItem to (choose from list theapps) as text
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do shell script "killall 'false'"
--> error "No matching processes belonging to you were found" number 1
and it was my workaround that didn't return any error at all. Looking at it a bit more the false was returning that error because I had it "as list". Thanks again for helping me learn how to simplify the workflow some more!
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Text edit won't save documents

Several days ago i started having a problem i never had before in a zillion mac years. I use Text Edit a lot, to take quick notes or copy and paste things. I save the documents, give them a name, put them in a folder, or throw them away. Several days ago, i had some trouble saving. This being Mountain Lion OS 10.8.5, i have to hold down the option key to get Save As to come up in the File menu. i don't really need it because Save will ask if i want to Save As, but it took me a while to understand that and by then i was in the habit of the option key.. Anyway, a few days ago, when i would click Save As, the file menu button would light up but instead of just quickly opening a Save As window, there was a delay. Then, the window opened and i saved. As time went by, sometimes the File menu button would light up and just sit there, no window would come, and then after maybe 10 seconds, the light would go off and no save option window came up. That is the problem i'm having now. I have a bunch of text edit documents on my desk top, Untitled, Untitled 2, Untitled 3, etc. I can't save them. I click on Command S, same thing happens, i try clicking the Close button (red button in upper left) but it just lights up for 5 or 10 seconds and goes off. It doesn't ask me if i want to save before closing, as it used to.
Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Is there anything i can try to fix the problem and to be able to save my documents? If i force quit, will there be a saved version of the documents anywhere? I have a Time Capsule. i've never tried to retrieve anything from it. What a hassle. i'd appreciate some help if anyone has heard of this issue. I'm able to save/save as in Preview and in Word. As far as i know the problem is just in Text Edit.

Control- or right-click on the file in the Finder & choose "Compress" from the contextual menu that appears. The option is also available from the File menu in the Finder.

Force Quitting Text Edit

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