[lland]

When I start up in OS 10.2.4 I see the following loading...

File deletion tracking services

Can anyone explain what this is?

[macmike42]

I assume you mean on the boot panel when your Mac is starting up?

Guess #1: (In the form of a question, ala Jeopardy) Do you have journaling enabled?

Guess #2: Check your /Library/StartupItems and /System/Library/StartupItems for anything that you think shouldn't be there. /Library/StartupItems should be empty unless you have installed anything that needs to start before you boot up (ie servers of some kind). Here is a list of stuff in my /System/Library/StartupItems:

Code:
Accounting/    CrashReporter/      NetInfo/             Samba/
Apache/        Cron/               Network/             SecurityServer/
AppServices/   DirectoryServices/  NetworkExtensions/   Sendmail/
AppleShare/    Disks/              NetworkTime/         SystemLog/
AppleTalk/     IPServices/         Portmap/             SystemTuning/
AuthServer/    LDAP/               PowerLogix Startup/  mDNSResponder/
BIND/          LoginWindow/        PrintingServices/
ConfigServer/  NFS/                RemoteDesktopAgent/
CoreGraphics/  NIS/                SSH/

Those are all the stock OS X startup items, with the exception of PowerLogix Startup and RemoteDesktopAgent.

[lland]

The following files are in the StartupItems folder

Note: the Track Delete

What is it?

Can I delete it?



VolumeAssist
TrackDelete
RawRequest
SymDCInit
NUMCompatibilityCheck
NortonPersonalFirewall
NortonMissedTasks

[lland]

Looks like it's part of Norton Utilities - but what does it do?


/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton Utilities/DTDaemon

[Cipher13]

Originally posted by lland:
Looks like it's part of Norton Utilities - but what does it do?


/Library/Application Support/Norton Solutions Support/Norton Utilities/DTDaemon

Probably a component of an UnErase-like feature.

Nortin is evil. Kill it.