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macOS says "EasyKOT is not open anymore"?

Your sales are safe. Orders and bills live in the register's own database, not in the process that is stuck. What happened is that an old EasyKOT process is still running with no window, and macOS keeps trying to bring that one forward instead of opening the app. There are two ways out: the easy one, and the one for right now.

Why this message appears

Now and then, on the restart after an update, the old EasyKOT gets stuck while closing, and the new one gets stuck with it before it can open a window. macOS then believes EasyKOT is already open, tries to bring it forward, finds no window, and says: The application "EasyKOT" is not open anymore.

The fix, in order.

1

Easiest: restart the Mac

Apple menu → Restart. The leftover process is gone after a restart and EasyKOT opens from the Dock as usual. If you are mid-service, do step 2 now and restart after closing.

2

Need it now? Open a fresh copy from Terminal

First make sure EasyKOT really is not open anywhere, including your other screen. Then open Terminal (type Terminal in Spotlight) and run: open -n /Applications/EasyKOT.app. macOS then ignores the old process and starts a new register.

3

No window? Look at your other screen

With a second screen attached, the EasyKOT window can open over there. A dot under EasyKOT in the Dock means it is running: find the window in Mission Control (F3, or swipe up with three fingers) and drag it onto your screen.

4

Optional: end the leftover process

Open Activity Monitor and search for desktop, which is the name of the program inside the EasyKOT app. Select the old desktop process with no window and press Force Quit. If it will not go, leave it: a restart removes it, and step 2 keeps you selling until then.

One thing to watch. Run open -n only when EasyKOT really is not open. If the register is already running and you run it anyway, you get two registers on one laptop working on the same database. If that happens, close one of the windows.

Straight answers

Did I lose any sales or bills?
No. Every order and bill is saved in the register's own database, and synced to the cloud when there is internet. The stuck helper holds no data. When the new register opens, everything is where you left it.
Why did it happen right after an update?
Restart to update closes EasyKOT and opens the new version. On that restart the closing app and the starting one occasionally get stuck together. Restarting the Mac clears it.
Does this happen on Windows?
This message is macOS's own; Windows never shows it. If EasyKOT will not open on Windows, restart the laptop; that is the simplest fix there too.
What if it keeps happening?
Tell us on WhatsApp when it happened and which version you are on (the register shows EasyKOT 0.1.x at the bottom left). The details from that Mac are how we find the cause.
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