ITunes and Toast are slow to open and will not quit
The other day I noticed that when I start iTunes it takes forever to start, no window no nothing, then a few minutes later its up and running. Then when I quit the window goes away but the dock icon still has its arrow and it shows up in the "Force Quit Application" window as "Not Responding" and no matter how many times I force it to quit it is still there. No window just the dock icon still has its arrow and it shows up in the "Force Quit Application" window.
I have to restart the Mac to get rid of iTunes. I tried downloading iTunes 6.5 but it will not install.
Now I find that Toast 5.2.1 also does this, when opened it shows no window and can not be forced to quit.
Apple Help, Help, Help
Dual 2.4 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Apple Help, Help, Help
As this is a user-to-user forum, it's highly unlikely someone from Apple jumps in (they can be recognized by their white (Apple employees) or purple (moderators/hosts) avatars).
The long delays can be caused by a very huge library. iTunes needs some time to open the library and after quitting, iTunes will write the updated 'iTunes Library' file to disk. In contrary to pre-iTunes 7 versions, this can take some time.
If you don't have a huge (larger than a few hundreds of GBs?) library, the above does not apply.
Concerning your Toast application. I'm running Toast 8 at the moment, but still have Toast 5.2.3 on an external drive. Running and quitting that application gives no trouble whatsoever on my system (OS X 10.4.8).
Did you recently install a new app.? The first thing to try is to Repair Permissions with Disk Utility. If this doesn't fix it, you might have to perform an Archive and Install.
You also might post a question in the Mac OS X forum. Maybe someone there has a hint that does not need a tedious Archive and Install.
M
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.8) iTunes 7.0.2
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