Don’t worry about the continuous text output in the window.īack in the Microsoft Updater window, hit “Close Applications and Install”. The is a BASH loop that will find both processes and kill them as soon as they start up again. Make sure the whole command is on the same line. You can do this without quitting anything else, even while the pesky “close applications” window is displayed.
#Download microsoft office for mac 2011 how to
Here’s how to do it: Open the Terminal utility on your Mac and paste the following code: while true do kill $(ps -ef | grep -i SyncServices | grep -v grep | awk ' ') done What did work was a very clever suggestion by someone named vrleboss: Use a while loop on the command line and continually kill those processes until you’re done. None of those suggestions worked for me, and besides: what a hack any of these solutions are to apply a simple security patch.