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It’s using some memory it has open files. For example, right now on my machine, TextEdit is listed in Activity Monitor as one of my running processes. The heuristic for determining whether an application is “in use” is very conservative: it must not be the active application, it must have no visible, non-minimized windows - and, of course, it must explicitly support Automatic Termination.Īs Siracusa goes on to point out, when Automatic Termination occurs, the terminated application may in fact not really be terminated. Lion will quit your running applications behind your back if it decides it needs the resources, and if you don’t appear to be using them. When I was done messing about in the Finder, I tried to use Command-Tab to switch back to Preview to bring up the Open dialog again - but I couldn’t, because in the meantime, Preview had quietly been told to quit, by the system, behind my back, without notifying me.Īs John Siracusa explains in his Ars Technica review of Lion, this is a Lion feature called Automatic Termination: So I closed Preview’s Open dialog (and I may also have told Preview to hide) and switched to the Finder.
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At that point, however, I realized that I wanted to make some changes to the folder containing the PDF document I intended to open. So I chose File > Open to summon the Open dialog. I launched Preview because I wanted to open a certain PDF document. Yesterday, the same thing happened to me with Preview. (While it worked for both Adam Engst and Jeff Carlson, several commenters have been unable to reproduce it.) However, I do know that Lion can cause an application to quit while you’re not using it. I just tried it twice with TextEdit, and it worked both times but I don’t know for a fact that Lion will cause a given application on your machine to quit while you’re not using it. Unfortunately I can’t guarantee that the experiment will work the same way on your machine as it does on mine. Worse, if TextEdit appears in your Dock only when it’s running and this happens,
You weren’t actively doing anything with TextEdit - it had no open windows and it wasn’t the frontmost application - so the system quietly told TextEdit to quit. Then use the Command-Tab application switcher to switch back to TextEdit. Now switch away from TextEdit and do something else for a while. You’ll notice, from the name of the application appearing next to the Apple menu, that TextEdit is still running (it isn’t one of those applications, like System Preferences, that quits automatically when its last window closes).
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Try this experiment in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
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