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From: Simon Dobbs on 8 Apr 2010 15:38
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:38:33 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote
(in article <nf1sr5tuvhdpkq0evp2ibvq714cfhb9i1t(a)4ax.com>):

> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:43:53 +0100, Simon Dobbs
> <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:09:27 +0100, Andy Hewitt wrote
>> (in article <1jgddds.1gclj98gw4v0gN%thewildrover(a)me.com>):
>>
>>> I'm a little puzzled by what I see in my trash after almost every
>>> restart. I nearly always see the 'Recovered items' folder, and it's
>>> nearly always got loads of media files from iWeb in it [1].
>>>
>>> Something up in iWeb I've been thinking, although I've not had any
>>> problems with it, as far as I can see, most of my web pages are running
>>> OK.
>>>
>>> I've recently been playing with RapidWeaver, just to see if I can get it
>>> to replace iWeb [2], and now I see there's RapidWeaver items in the
>>> 'Recovered items' folder too.
>>>
>>> I don't get any other files appearing after a reboot, so is this just a
>>> weird thing with web site editors? Is this just perhaps a simple cache
>>> clearing?
>>>
>>> [1] I use iWeb quite a lot, and edit a site at least two or three times
>>> a week.
>>> [2] I started to migrate a site over to RW, but find it also has bugs
>>> and problems, and some things just don't work - such as some of the
>>> functions in the blog templates. So far it's harder work, and less
>>> reliable than iWeb is.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> When I get "recovered files", the one unexpected thing is always a folder
>> entitled 'entourage temp'. This is strange because I don't run entourage!
>
> You do have Office installed though? There's a sync agent that runs
> whether Entourage's sync with The Truth is enabled or not, and it's
> probably failing to shut down gracefully.
>
> Microsoft Sync Services.app, it is.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
>

wow- such expertise! should I kill said thing, and if so how?

thanks and regards.

From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 8 Apr 2010 15:48
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:38:05 +0100, Simon Dobbs
<simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:38:33 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote
>(in article <nf1sr5tuvhdpkq0evp2ibvq714cfhb9i1t(a)4ax.com>):
>
>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:43:53 +0100, Simon Dobbs
>> <simondobbs(a)froglet.net> wrote:
>>
>>> When I get "recovered files", the one unexpected thing is always a folder
>>> entitled 'entourage temp'. This is strange because I don't run entourage!
>>
>> You do have Office installed though? There's a sync agent that runs
>> whether Entourage's sync with The Truth is enabled or not, and it's
>> probably failing to shut down gracefully.
>>
>> Microsoft Sync Services.app, it is.
>>
>
>wow- such expertise! should I kill said thing, and if so how?

Delete it from the list in System Prefs/Accounts/your user/Login
Items. You can kill the running version from Activity Monitor.

That's for 2008 - I think for 2004 it was a launch service or some
such.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted" -- Bertrand Russell
From: Pd on 9 Apr 2010 06:00
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> >> Microsoft Sync Services.app, it is.
> >>
> >
> >wow- such expertise! should I kill said thing, and if so how?
>
> Delete it from the list in System Prefs/Accounts/your user/Login
> Items. You can kill the running version from Activity Monitor.

There are so many processes running in Activity Monitor, I can't help
wondering if there's stuff there that's unnecessary. Most of the
processes running under my UserID I can understand, but root seems to
have a whole bunch of stuff that I don't know about.

I've just noticed qmaster, which I've never used for distributed
rendering or compression, so I've just deleted that from Startup,
Prefpanes and stopped the process.

pvsnatd I stopped, because I never want my Parallels XP to connect to
the internet.

distnoted - what the hell's that? "distributed notification server" -
still no wiser.

kdcmond - key distribution centre for Red-mond? for the world?

krb5kcd - related to kdcmond? looks like it might be Kerberos related,
but as far as I know I'm not using any Kerberos authorisation.

hidd - seems to be Bluetooth related.

blued - another Bluetooth daemon, apparently.

lsd - no idea, and for obvious reasons hard to Google.

--
Pd
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Apr 2010 06:24
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:00:52 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd)
wrote:

>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>
>> >> Microsoft Sync Services.app, it is.
>> >>
>> >
>> >wow- such expertise! should I kill said thing, and if so how?
>>
>> Delete it from the list in System Prefs/Accounts/your user/Login
>> Items. You can kill the running version from Activity Monitor.
>
>There are so many processes running in Activity Monitor, I can't help
>wondering if there's stuff there that's unnecessary. Most of the
>processes running under my UserID I can understand, but root seems to
>have a whole bunch of stuff that I don't know about.

To be brutally honest, it'd be better to learn about it *before*
disabling stuff... there may be interesting repercussions.

Not as many as there would be on a Windows box, but still.

>pvsnatd I stopped, because I never want my Parallels XP to connect to
>the internet.

Does Parallels still work okay? VMware refuses to run if its little
NAT and such workers are disabled.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"I think man is the most interesting insect on earth, don't you?"
-- Marvin the Martian
From: Pd on 9 Apr 2010 07:53
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> >pvsnatd I stopped, because I never want my Parallels XP to connect to
> >the internet.
>
> Does Parallels still work okay? VMware refuses to run if its little
> NAT and such workers are disabled.

Seems to work fine.

--
Pd
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