Hi Donna, You can force quit any app by pressing Command-Option-Escape, and then choosing the application you want to quit if you cannot exit regularly. I've not seen this behavior with TextEdit, but I don't usually try to change to specific font selections. I've read that one source of occasional mysterious performance problems is having an occasional corrupted font file, which will cause everything to hang. This may not be related to your difficulties, but if you experience a similar hang up when accessing the same font at a later time, this could be a corrupted font file.
Cheers, Esther Donna Goodin wrote: > I think it depends on the app. I get this in Safari when pages are > loading, but it always goes away. This is the first time I've seen > the Mac get "stuck" in busy mode. > John W. Carty wrote: > >> I don't have an answer but in evaluating a mac for my future leap >> I've encountered applications busy msg. >> >> Is this related to limited ram? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Donna Goodin [mailto:goodi...@msu.edu] >> Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 2:48 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: text Edit Busy? >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was just working on a document in Text Edit. I went into the Font >> menu to try and change the font, and when I did, I started getting >> the >> message "Text Edit Busy", but the message would not go away, and I >> couldn't close the program. Has anyone else seen this? Is there >> anyway to get rid of it besides shutting off the computer? >> TIA, >> Donna >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >> . >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >> . >> >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
