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From: Norm on 27 Mar 2010 11:52
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.

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Norm
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 27 Mar 2010 16:10
Norm 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.

That would be something worth determining.

> 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.

Odd

> 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?

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).

-j

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From: Norm on 27 Mar 2010 17:21
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).

Thanks but you lost me......

Opened Activity Monitor but I don't find a tab with "Open Files and
Ports" unless it is staring at me. ;)

There is a drop down menu at top and a series of selections at the
bottom starting with CPU.

Thanks.

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Norm
From: dorayme on 27 Mar 2010 18:10
In article <NeidnfGvoZ5z6zPWnZ2dnUVZ_uWdnZ2d(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).
>
> Thanks but you lost me......
>
> Opened Activity Monitor but I don't find a tab with "Open Files and
> Ports" unless it is staring at me. ;)
>
> There is a drop down menu at top and a series of selections at the
> bottom starting with CPU.

Open the Activity Monitor in column view. Go to View menu at top
of screen. And tick whatever boxes you want, tick them all maybe.
One of them is #Ports.

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.

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dorayme
From: Norm on 27 Mar 2010 18:13
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.

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Norm
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