Force quit/can't shut down

Force quit...solved

I hope this is the right forum, as I'm not too bothered about the problems with the program, just want osX to shutdown.

Stuffit Expander was taking a long time opening a file, so I told it to cancel and it's been stuck at "cancelling" for about 30 minutes now, I've tried telling it to quit with no joy.

The problem is, I can't shut down while it's still running and I can't get it to quit either.

Is there anyway to force stuffit expander to close or my i-book to shutdown regardless?

Thanks <3

Oh, in case it helps: i-book G4, running osX

Force Shutdown?

I have used Force shutdown before on my mac. I just hope you have an eject key on your keyboard. If so try control+option+command+eject.

mac0s9user said:

I have used Force shutdown before on my mac. I just hope you have an eject key on your keyboard. If so try control+option+command+eject.

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Thanks for your reply

Sadly, it didn't work; "the application 'stuffit expander' cancelled shutdown..." is the error message, then it tells me to close stuffit and try again xD

Thanks though!

Not too familiar with mac laptops but can you pull the battery out?

I've never done it, but it looks like it'd slide out pretty easily, I'm a bit wary of messing with the battery as I never checked if it was one of the recalled ones(which it probably was) ;p

However...I managed to force quit stuffit with the activity monitor, so problem solved!

Thanks for helping me out!

I hate taking batteries out of laptops but sometimes there is no other way..

Glad to hear you got the problem worked out.