How to restart my Mac if the setting pane is frozen?

Cannot choose to restart pc mac as asks me to quit settings which appears to be stuck and do not know what I will loose if I do that.

Everything otherwise works fine

Thanks for any suggestions


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Posted on Jul 6, 2024 8:23 AM

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Posted on Jul 6, 2024 9:44 AM

welfen wrote:

Cannot choose to restart pc mac as asks me to quit settings which appears to be stuck and do not know what I will loose if I do that.
Everything otherwise works fine
Thanks for any suggestions

There are no real other options -- one way or another you will have to force that process to quit. If you are very concerned, make sure you have a good backup. You can run Time Machine or other backup software even while System Settings is hung. Then Force Quit System Settings and restart.

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Jul 6, 2024 9:44 AM in response to welfen

welfen wrote:

Cannot choose to restart pc mac as asks me to quit settings which appears to be stuck and do not know what I will loose if I do that.
Everything otherwise works fine
Thanks for any suggestions

There are no real other options -- one way or another you will have to force that process to quit. If you are very concerned, make sure you have a good backup. You can run Time Machine or other backup software even while System Settings is hung. Then Force Quit System Settings and restart.

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