When force quitting Apps' Icon remains in Dock

I'm having a problem when I have to force quit applications. When I Force Quit an application the app quits but the apps' icon with the indicater still on remains in the dock. When this happens I'm unable to launch the same app again. This is really getting to be a pain so any help would be appreciated.

I would be more concerned with the fact that you are required to Force Quit applications, as that suggests something more serious than a stuck icon in the Dock which is but a symptom.
You could start up in safe mode,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455?viewlocale=en_US
which perform an fsck on the disk, which may rectify a problem with your disk, as well as excluding third party applications until the next normal restart. This could give you some indication of whether the problem is caused by some third party app or not.

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Sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Prior to loading 1OS7 it was easy to force quit applications that were still open by double clicking and seeing an a red "x" you had to click on.
It doesn't work that way with the new operating system and the instructions that were given "Force-quitting apps is a little different though: Instead of tapping and holding on the icon, you flick a thumbnail up to dismiss it."
Do not work.
I am looking for anyone who can help figure this out.

HT5137 I went to the genius bar the other day and was told that force quitting apps was the single worst thing I can do to my phone or iPad, short of dropping and damaging it, or jailbreaking it. Is this true or false?

I went to the genius bar the other day and was told that force quitting apps was the single worst thing I can do to my phone or iPad, short of dropping and damaging it, or jailbreaking it.That it is bad for the software, firmware and battery. The employee was very excited about the topic and cringed when I force quit in front of him. He gave me the url to read about multi-tasking so that i could read more. But neither that page nor the force quitting apps page says anything about this activity being bad. Is it so bad? If so, why don't we know that? So many people I know force quit in an effort to have fewer pages appear.

Thank you for the feedback. I can breathe a sigh of relief that I can once again clear these pages from my sight. This employee said he tells about a half dozen people a day when they come in with various problems, as he is attributing their problems to force quitting. It's like he was out to save the world, one iphone user at a time. I'm talking *serious* passion from this man!

When forced quit doesn't work???

What do I do when forced quit doesn't work?? This happens occasionally when something freezes, like Logic did today. I force quit, and wait... and wait... and nothing happens. I try and restart and it keeps coming up with the same window: Logout timed out, please force quit to continue or cancel.
Anyways I hit force quit over and over and nothing happens. I resolve to holding the button and manually restarting the computer. How can I get this thing to force quit?!!
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Funny you should ask as I had the EXACT same problem this afternoon.
I had to do a hard restart.
But, then I got the gray spinning startup.
So, I had to restart from my backup drive (thank you SuperDuper!).
Then, 5 minutes later my internal hard drive reappeared.
Then, I restarted from my internal drive.
I had this problem in April (I took notes) and Apple replaced my hard drive.
Your mileage may vary.

TS3274 Hi I am using iPad 2, when I tap app icon on the screen it shakes and does not open the app please advice what need to be done

Hi I am using iPad 2, when I tap app icon on the screen it shakes and does not open the app please advice what need to be done

- First try clciking the Home button one and try again.
- Next reset the iPod. Nothing is lost
Reset iPad: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Then restore from backup
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Ipod force quits apps!!!!!! Can someone help???!!!

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Force Quit Apps Stick in Dock

This has happened a few times with a few different apps (Webkit/safari, itunes, and others i can't think of right now)
What happens is the app will beachball, ill force quit afterwhich it will still appear in the doc, but cannot be opened, and jsut reappears in the forequit window everytime i try to force quit.
this then causes me to do a hard shutdown to resolve the issue.
I am running safari 3 with latest version of webkit, but i didnt think this was an issue. And also, its not just safari.
any ideas?

have you tried killing the process in activity monitor? there might be some other things running that prevent the app from completely shutting down. just a thought

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At the drop list for "Permanently erase deleted messages when", choose "Quitting Mail".
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i found out my prob!
here is what you do.
go to the "system preferences" on your dock.
click "software updates".
click "installed software"
if it shows something about a recent update about "EFI UPDATE, FIRMWARE, THUNDERBOLT" or anything like that, exit out of it.
go to mail.
click "mail" at the top.
click "preferences...".
find the account you are having trouble with, once you do, make sure its highlighted, then click the "-" at the bottom of the window (this will only effect that mail account, it will not effect your ical weather or not its synced thought that email account)
hit the "+" (right next to the "-") and add your accout back!
its something with that update that effected mail, i hope this works out for you, if not reply back

Dock.app icon appears in dock!?

Well, I tried customizing my dock with a 3rd party app, but after applying the changes, I noticed that a new icon appeared in my dock - the icon for Dock.app. When I try quitting the app, it has a similar effect to the terminal command "killall Dock" - the dock quits, relaunches, and the icon is still there.
http://i40.tinypic.com/mx20qw.png
http://oi42.tinypic.com/v46mn4.jpg
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I have Macbook Pro (Mid 2010) with 256 GB with Agility 3 SSD. Additional 500 GB HDD in the optical drive bay and running Mountain Lion GM (and final version).
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I have this same exact problem with my iMac. It just started happening this week I notice. If I power down the machine sometimes it hangs on shutdown which forces me to kill the power and when I power the machine back up all is fine for a while. If I try to launch any native Apple app llike Safari or Disk Utility all I receive is a bouncing icon in the dock. It never starts, so I have to kill it. If I use FireFox it start without a hitch. I am running 10.8.2, so something is worng here. I have not added any new software that I didn't already have.

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Good morning, QuickAgPG,
I took a look at the site this morning.   There are some good omens.
It appears that a Snow Leopard compatible version of the Solitaire game will soon be available, if that is the one you are unhappy about.
If it is other than Solitaire, the owner is an ex Apple man and one would have thought, more sympathetic to Apple clients.   When you approached them on their site, what did they say?
One last point.   If this is the Full Deck Solitaire it looks to be a free app from the App Store though I can't find a price if bought direct.
The choice would appear to be ... wait for the Snow Leopard update they write about or buy the new version direct. If the latter you will first have to remove the original app from your computer.   App Cleaner will do that job.
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Force quiting apps on iphone bad for logic board???

While visit the apple store this weekend in regards to our phone not working they asked if we double tap the home and slide up on our apps to close them, of force quit the application. We responded yes and were told never to do this. However on previous visits we were told to do this because multiple apps will drain the battery and slow the phone down. I would love to know what the correct answer to this is and understand why we would be told two different things.

Closing apps does not harm anything.
Whoever told you that is mentally challenged.

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Hello:
In answer to your question, I don't know. However, drag the app store icon out of the dock. Then drag the app store icon from your application folder to the dock.
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Message was edited by: Barry Hemphill

I want app B to run when I open app A and I want app B to quit when I quit app A

Hello
I have an idle script that handles iTunes. I want the script to run when I run iTunes and quit when I quit iTunes.
At the moment my workaround are two separate scripts, "zactivate" & "zquit"
activate application "iTunes"
activate application "albumArt"
quit application "albumArt"
quit application "iTunes"
I use spotlight to launch these but I would like to open and quit iTunes "normally" and have the same effect as the above scripts.
Please help me. I am a novice.

Normally AppleScript will not run automatically when you open or quit any given app - they're completely unrelated events.
However, if you already have an idle script, then you can amend your script to periodically poll to see if app1 is running and then launch/quit app2 based on the results. Something like:
on idle
tell application "System Events" to set processList to name of every application process
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-- iTunes is running, so make sure your secondary App is:
if processList does not contain "albumArt" then
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end if
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if processList contains "albumArt" then
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end idle
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Lowering the return value from the above 30 seconds will have the check performed more frequently. You can run it as often as you like based on how long you're prepared to tolerate the apps being in a different run state.

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