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Question about force quitting..
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Rinpoche
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Feb 13, 2003, 11:27 PM
 
I read on the forum somewhere saying that forcequitting is not very good. If this is true, then what makes it so bad?
     
tooki
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Feb 14, 2003, 12:52 AM
 
The program doesn't get to save its preferences, clean up scratch files, etc. Badly written programs can even self-destruct (though that's quite rare). Preference corruption is the most likely effect, and that can cause erratic program behavior.

Just use the normal quit function unless a program has frozen, in which case you have no choice.

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