Is there a way to force shutdown to ignore open programs?

[Felix E]

A lot of the time when I go to shutdown my macbook, I have open tabs, torrents transferring etc. I forget about these, try to shutdown and then have to deal with messages asking me if I want to close tabs, end transfers etc.

Now I know it's possible to turn off by holding the power button down, but I assume this isn't exactly a 'clean' shutdown - i.e. it doesn't allow the system to do whatever it does when it shuts down normally.

So is there a way to force the mac to close my programs without asking me and just shutdown? Like a key to hold down whilst clicking on shutdown?

Cheers,
Felix

 

[kvfb97]

Found this:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=181171

 

[Felix E]

Thanks, that's useful but overall probably more hassle than just quitting the programs! Thought there might be an easy shortcut but nevermind.

 

[Westyfield2]

Thanks, that's useful but overall probably more hassle than just quitting the programs! Thought there might be an easy shortcut but nevermind.

I'd also be interested in a solution to this.....

 

[Caged]

You could save the above as a shell script and just double click it.

 

[Felix E]

You could save the above as a shell script and just double click it.

Thanks, I've had a look on Google as to how to do this but it all seems a bit confusing - any pointers?

 

[iSam]

Don't be so lazy, just close your windows! Sounds like more hassle to find a way around it!

 

[Will_3rd]

press ctrl, option, command and eject. Will shut down your Mac even you have programs open.

 

[Ender]

pretty sure you can just hold down option key whilst selecting shutdown from the menu and it will ignore prompts

 

[Deleted member 651465]

ctrl + alt + cmd + eject (on desktops)

ctrl + alt + cmd + power (on notebooks)

 

[Caged]

Still Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+Eject on my MacBook.