Is using a key shortcut for restart (Cmd + Ctrl + Power) bad in any way? I restart my Mac (for various reasons) often, about once a day. Recently I found about the key shortcut to do this: Cmd + Ctrl + Power. I really like this because it's fast and avoids that annoying prompt about "reopening windows when coming back".

My question: is using key shortcut Cmd + Ctrl + Power forceful, aggressive or potentially damaging in any way (like losing recent data)? Or, it is the same thing as doing it by clicking the menu options ( -> Restart... -> Restart).
Command + Control + Power button will force a restart without any intervention from the system. Applications will not be closed in a proper way and everything that is not yet written to disk will be lost.

It is definitely not safe.

You could use Command + Option + Control + Power button to shutdown and then Power button to start.


  Quit all apps (after giving you a chance to save changes to open documents), then shut down the computer