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Tonight I got this zombie dialog box:

Zombie dialog box. Its title is "Copy Job.app" and it reads "Application isn't running." Its OK button is always in the blue mousedown state.

The OK button is not clickable, and clicking the box does not bring it to the front. I believe it came from a SuperDuper! glitch, but if it's attached to a process at all, the process is called neither "Copy Job" nor "SuperDuper!". So I have no way of getting rid of it other than logging out and back in.

Back when I was a Windows user, I used a Sysinternals app called Process Explorer that let me basically click on a window to see exactly which process it belonged to. Is there a utility for OS X that does something similar?

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Hmm, this looks like an error dialog from an AppleScript app. However, when I try something similar, the process does have the same name as the title. If you have access to the Mac developer tools, Quartz Debug lets you inspect windows in detail: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/56561/… – jmk Feb 2 at 20:42

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