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Where can start-up apps hide?
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nagoya, Japan • 日本 名古屋市
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I installed Nikon's crappy software that came with my nice D-50, and there's some program called Nikon View Monitor that always runs in the background without my consent. It's not a very good citizen either — it always takes about .5% of my CPU — so I'd like to stop it from running.
The problem is, I can't find any links to the app from the usual start-up locations. It's not listed in my System Preference panel (startup apps) either. Does anyone know where else I could check?
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IIRC Nikon software comes with an uninstaller. I assume you want to get rid of all the Nikon software?
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Open Activity Monitor, select the app, press the info-button, and select the open files tab. The path to the app should be in there.
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Sounds like a daemon of some sort...yuck.
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Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock
> I can't find any links to the app from the usual start-up locations.
> It's not listed in my System Preference panel (startup apps) either.
> Does anyone know where else I could check?
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d/
(or maybe /etc/mach_init.d/).
Look for a plist that isn't Apple's.
(I.e., read it and find a ServiceName
that doesn't start with "com.apple").
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Nagoya, Japan • 日本 名古屋市
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IIRC Nikon software comes with an uninstaller. I assume you want to get rid of all the Nikon software?
If it came with one, I can't find it. Fact is, I'd like to get rid of all the apps but keep the Photoshop plug-in.
Open Activity Monitor, select the app, press the info-button, and select the open files tab. The path to the app should be in there.
I found the background apps (hidden in the Library) and deleted them, but I'd like to find the reference or setting that launches them and get rid of that too.
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d/
(or maybe /etc/mach_init.d/)
I checked, as per your suggestion, but nothing out of the ordinary seems to be in those locations. Hm...
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Was the software Nikon Capture? If it it, just run the installer again and switch from "Easy Install" to "Uninstall."
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Thanks for the tip Bradoesch. Unfortunately, Nikon's piece-of-crap program crashes during the un-installation process. It also made me close every single app I had running, which was a pain in the butt. There must be hundreds of shareware authors who can make better software than Nikon.
I guess I'll find out during my next boot (probably when 10.4.4 is out) if the un-installer deleted the auto-start rubbish before it crashed.
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