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From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 27 Mar 2010 22:58
Norm wrote:
> In article<dorayme-869F12.09100928032010(a)news.albasani.net>,
> dorayme<dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> That is one thing to be doing. The other thing, probably more
>> what Jeffrey means is this:
>>
>> Select something in the Activity Monitor window, say Safari or
>> whatever process you are interested in. Then click the blue "i"
>> Inspect button at top of the AM window and you should see a panel
>> dialog box come up on the screen. One of the menu items in this
>> panel is Open Files and Ports.
>
> Got it.
>
> Thanks for the help.

Yep. That's what I was trying to say. Sorry for having omitted
necessary steps.

Cheers,

-j



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From: Kevin McMurtrie on 28 Mar 2010 03:19
In article <GOidnfrhiatFtDPWnZ2dnUVZ_hidnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>,
Norm <NOSPAM(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> I'm trying, without any success so far, to determine the reason that my
> Dictionary app (OS X app) appears to access my external hard drive
> whenever I launch it.
>
> Every time I launch that app, one of my two external drives spins up and
> the 'working lights' flash for 5-15 seconds. Seems strange to me.
>
> I have:
>
> 1. Made sure Spotlight is blocked from the three partitions on that
> drive. Two partitions are clone partitions (one for each of our Macs)
> and one is for backups.
>
> 2. Removed the Dictionary icon from the Dock and then both launched it
> from the original in the Application folder and created a new Dictionary
> app Dock icon.
>
> Anything I can do to determine why this happens?
>
> It is the only app that results in this symptom when launched.
>
> Thanks and curiously.

I've seen that in several apps and I suspect it's a bug or inefficiency
in a system library. When Time Machine is running over the Internet,
Dictionary sometimes puts up the beachball for a minute. I've never
caught it in the act while I had 'fs_usage' logging I/O access.
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From: Norm on 28 Mar 2010 07:34
In article <81771nFm3pU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:

> In Activity Monitor (look in /Applications/Utilities) you can see what
> files a particular process has open. Double click on Dictionary and
> then use the "Open Files and Ports" tab to see what's going on. (You
> will probably want to save that very long list so that you can go
> through it with a text editor).

OP back.

Activity Monitor "Open Files and Ports" was viewed directly after a
launch of Dictionary and it does not report any paths that include one
or both of the external drives even though both drives were busy as a
result of the launch of Dictionary.

Guess I'll just chalk it off to "possessed." ;)

Thanks to all for the info and suggestions.

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From: Tom Stiller on 28 Mar 2010 08:22
In article <t7-dnXK0FLgmozLWnZ2dnUVZ_rqdnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>,
Norm <NOSPAM(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <81771nFm3pU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote:
>
> > In Activity Monitor (look in /Applications/Utilities) you can see what
> > files a particular process has open. Double click on Dictionary and
> > then use the "Open Files and Ports" tab to see what's going on. (You
> > will probably want to save that very long list so that you can go
> > through it with a text editor).
>
> OP back.
>
> Activity Monitor "Open Files and Ports" was viewed directly after a
> launch of Dictionary and it does not report any paths that include one
> or both of the external drives even though both drives were busy as a
> result of the launch of Dictionary.
>
> Guess I'll just chalk it off to "possessed." ;)
>
> Thanks to all for the info and suggestions.

Only a guess, but might it be looking for additional dictionaries?

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From: Norm on 28 Mar 2010 11:36
In article <tom_stiller-41FC71.08224728032010(a)news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> Only a guess, but might it be looking for additional dictionaries?

OP back.

I've never had other dictionaries to my knowledge but then the memory is
far from perfect. ;)

Possibly this Apple Dictionary app does such a search as a normal
routine. If so, that may be it.

Thanks.

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