Valentin Vladescu — Biz Weblog http://www.vvladescu.com A weblog describing the latest trends and tendencies in IT Hardware and Software solutions for Business Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:48:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 44.4359126.100876http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifSome Rights Reservedvvladescuhttp://feedburner.google.com OSX Running app cleanup http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/vvladescu/~3/KBD6iXnwdj8/ http://www.vvladescu.com/2012/01/osx-running-app-cleanup/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:12:10 +0000 vvladescu http://www.vvladescu.com/?p=18 Quick and dirty AppleScript to close (not kill, close – pay attention to any possible dialog boxes) all running apps:

 

tellapplication “System Events” toset quitapps to name ofeveryapplication processwhose visible is true and name isnot “Finder”

repeatwith closeall in quitapps

quitapplication closeall

endrepeat

 

Just compile and run. Via CultOfMac

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