Its a waste of time to delete an app via drag-and-drop, reinstall and then have it crash again.

But to help you do it all by yourself, weve gathered our best ideas and solutions below.

Typically you can work on your Mac for hours at a time without a single issue.

However, a crashing app certainly can happen, leading to lost productivity, time and, worst of all, lost work.

Fortunately, there are several steps you can take to recover from a crashed app, as well as prevent the issue in the first place.

Some apps freeze or malfunction, some wont launch, some show no signs of life whatsoever.

Why it happens The most probable reason is that the app is simply not ready for the latest macOS Big Sur.

Something in its depth turned out to be incompatible with the new macOS.

Finally, some crashed apps on macOS Big Sur can sometimes be fixed by running maintenance scripts.

Download the Mac troubleshooting app, CleanMyMac X, launch it, find Maintenance tab and run the scripts (see details in the end of the article).

While these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a notable difference.

When this happens, youll typically see a message noting that the application has unexpectedly quit just as its windows disappears.

Its pretty frustrating especially if you end up losing all your work.

You can still see its windows, and its Dock icon still indicates that its running.

However, no amount of clicking or tabbing around will do anything.

A frozen app doesnt quit like a crashed app does, it simply becomes unresponsive.

Eclipse Quit Unexpectedly How To Deal With

Again, its a frustrating experience (if you want to know how to deal with it, check out this post on how to fix frozen apps ).

With crashes, meanwhile, the problem is the app quitting on its own.

In this article, Ill discuss recovering from app crashes, as well as steps that help prevent them in the first place.

Give that a click and cross your fingers that the crash doesnt happen again.

Turn if off and back on again is almost a punchline at this point, but it usually works.

Some leftover parts remain, and if the troublemaker is among them, your problem could persist.

Eclipse For Mac Quit Unexpectedly