Why I progressively stopped using OS X

Post by pooriaazimi » Fri, Jul 27, 2012, 5:46 PM UTC

stephenr wrote: post #8

tbassetto wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually auto termination apps exist since Lion: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20090789-263/some-appli...

Well apparently so! I have to say though in 12 months of using Lion I've never seen or even heard of this behaviour, and reading that article it sounds like it's got pretty minimal chances of making a situation worse, especially for the OP who is complaining about memory usage. Has anyone actually seen this behaviour first hand?

A friend of mine lost a 50 page script (written in TextEdit) because of app termination. He didn't save the document (a VERY wrong thing), and it happened in 10.7.0 days (and was fixed in 10.7.1, about 10 months ago), so it's not really something we should worry about anymore.

Post by stephenr » Fri, Jul 27, 2012, 5:48 PM UTC

pooriaazimi wrote: post #11

stephenr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well apparently so! I have to say though in 12 months of using Lion I've never seen or even heard of this behaviour, and reading that article it sounds like it's got pretty minimal chances of making a situation worse, especially for the OP who is complaining about memory usage. Has anyone actually seen this behaviour first hand?

A friend of mine lost a 50 page script (written in TextEdit) because of app termination. He didn't save the document (a VERY wrong thing), and it happened in 10.7.0 days (and was fixed in 10.7.1, about 10 months ago), so it's not really something we should worry about anymore.

app termination should only happen when there are no windows open - so how did he "lose" a document?

Edit: just noticed you said it was "fixed" - so he was affected by a bug, which happened to be in the app termination system. That is not a fault of the concept.

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