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Jan 04, 2012  Most of my apps will not stay open once they're launched. All of the Apple apps work fine. The apps which don't seem to work are not terribly useful apps (games, ESPN Scores, Level, etc.). It's very strange. Can't figure out why this is happening. I haven't added any apps in the last few days and this just started (this badly) this evening. I think historically it closes the window, but it doesn't quit the application. I don't know for sure why but I suspect it's rooted in the time before Macs had virtual memory and real application switching, you could close windows, possibly free some memory but not make opening a new one slow(er). – Neth Dec 7 '10 at 21:58.

Feb 27, 2011 Then you can turn the Quit option into Force Quit using a modifier key. Forcibly Quitting an App Using the Mac Dock Icon. To change the “Quit” option to “Force Quit” within the same Dock icon menu: Right-click on the Dock icon of the app to Forcibly Quit, then hold down the OPTION key. Jun 23, 2019  For those new to the Mac, just remember that some apps remain running even if their windows are closed. In this case, either select the app to make it active. Then press the keyboard shortcut Command-Q or right-click on the app’s icon and choose Quit from the menu that appears.

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• edited April 23Accepted Answer

  @SRC1954 The three window buttons in macOS are for Close, Minimize, and Maximize. There are contextual wrinkles about how each may behave (e.g. the green button can maximize or go to full screen mode), but the red button means close window, not quit. For some applications which have only one window, clicking the red button will actually quit the application. But again, this is a macOS thing, not a Quicken issue. (And Apple applications sometimes deviate from Apple's own interface guidelines, for better or worse.)
  In short, when you want to quit Quicken, get used to using Command-Q, which has been the macOS universal way of definitively quitting applications since the beginning of the Mac.
  Typically on a Mac, if you want to get a window out of your view to do something else, you click the yellow button to minimize the window to the dock; clicking on the window in the dock brings it back. You only click close if you're really done with that window.
  If you have closed all the Quicken Windows by clicking the red dot, the program is still running. Command-1 will re-open the main window, and then you can quit. Or you can select Quit from the Quicken menu, or Command-Q. Or you can Control-click on the Quicken icon in the dock, and select Quit from the pop-up menu.

  QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993

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• It is not a Quit button, but a close window button. This might appear odd at first if you are coming from the Windows world.
  The program is following standard Mac UI rules: if the program allows for multiple windows to be open (which it can), then the red button simply closes that window and leaves the application running. The only time will actually Quit is if the application only can present a single window.
  That said, if you close the main window (via the red close button or command+w), then single clicking on the program's dock icon should reopen the main window.
• Thank you for the explanation that it's not a Quit button. I had sort of figured that out. I quit the Windows world for good in October after previously going iPhone and iPad. It seems Mac has apps now and some of them work like apps on iPhone. For example, hitting the Red button does quit Twitter. But on native Mac apps, it doesn't. But Quicken doesn't work right.
  When I close Quicken and reopen it, hitting the Red button doesn't quit it even if there is only one Window, which is what I try to keep because multiple windows are confusing and don't have the same interface or information. On top of that, after I 'quit' Quicken a few times, it won't come back up by hitting the Quicken icon in the Dock. I have to either right click and choose the file or I have to right click and close Quicken and then restart it.
• However, if I click on the Quicken icon in the dock, it will change the menu bar at the top to Quicken although it doesn't bring up the Window. This is different from all other applications I use on the Mac. Pages, WordPress, Safari. Thanks again for help.
• edited April 23Accepted Answer

  @SRC1954 The three window buttons in macOS are for Close, Minimize, and Maximize. There are contextual wrinkles about how each may behave (e.g. the green button can maximize or go to full screen mode), but the red button means close window, not quit. For some applications which have only one window, clicking the red button will actually quit the application. But again, this is a macOS thing, not a Quicken issue. (And Apple applications sometimes deviate from Apple's own interface guidelines, for better or worse.)
  In short, when you want to quit Quicken, get used to using Command-Q, which has been the macOS universal way of definitively quitting applications since the beginning of the Mac.
  Typically on a Mac, if you want to get a window out of your view to do something else, you click the yellow button to minimize the window to the dock; clicking on the window in the dock brings it back. You only click close if you're really done with that window.
  If you have closed all the Quicken Windows by clicking the red dot, the program is still running. Command-1 will re-open the main window, and then you can quit. Or you can select Quit from the Quicken menu, or Command-Q. Or you can Control-click on the Quicken icon in the dock, and select Quit from the pop-up menu.

  QMac 2007 & QMac Subscription • Quicken user since 1993
• Thanks. This answered my question. I accidentally hit the wrong button though.

Please take these troubleshooting steps, if you have not already.

Backup the Mac.

Go step by step and test

Force Quit Mac Apps

1. Start up in Safe Mode. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21875?locale=en_US

2. Reset NVRAM/PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18761

3. Reset SMC. Choose the method for “If the battery is nonremovable”.

4. Delete com.apple.dock.plist

Mac Quit Application

Click on an empty spot on the Desktop to activate Finder.

Auto Quit Apps Mac

Hold the option key down and click”Go” menu in the menu bar. My passport wireless software for mac.

Mac Application Won't Quit

Choose “Library” from the drop-down.

Library > Preferences

Mac App Won't Quit

Look for com.apple.dock.plist

Right click on it and select “Move to Trash” and test.

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