Killing an application

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I try to kill a buggy application without success.

I tried the Force Quit… feature in the Apple menu but it doesn't work.

In order to find the PID I tried the following command from the Terminal but it doesn't match anything:

ps aux | grep -i MyApplicationName

The only way to effectively kill it is to restart the system. Sometimes I need to force restart because the buggy application is preventing the system to restart.

I'm running Mac OS X 10.9.5 on a Retina 13' MacBook (late 2013)

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Find the PID in activity monitor then in a terminal run sudo kill -9 PID and voilà

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Your last screenshot is showing the apps that were running in the past 8 hours. You can try running ps -e | grep -i bittorrent in Terminal.app to confirm, but it doesn't appear to be running at this time. Relaunching the Dock should make the icon disappear, unless it's a side effect of autotermination:

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