Quit Classic

Unfortunately, there is no visual clue that tells you whether Classic is open or has quit on you. I wish there was at least a little dot in the menu bar that would let me know that Classic is open because sometimes it up and quits altogether and I don’t even know until I see that the triangles under my Classic applications in the Dock have suddenly disappeared. A great consolation when Classic crashes is that it doesn’t affect Mac OS X—OS X just keeps running happily along.

Classic will quit automatically and safely when you Shut Down, Restart, or Log Out.

You can quit Classic yourself:

1.
Open System Preferences: either click on the icon in the Dock, or go to the Apple menu and choose “Preferences....”
2.
In System Preferences, ...

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