Re: launchctl and TextEdit

I found it! It seems the user had been playing around, created a com.apple.TextEdit.plist in their own ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder, set it to autolaunch, and then deleted the plist file. On this suspicion I went back in TimeMachine and found the plist file and used it with launchctl to unload it.

Thanks for all the suggestions!


On Apr 5, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Urban, Benjamin Mark wrote:

> It does not have to be named com.apple.TextEdit.plist.  Try searching for any reference to TextEdit in those locations.
> 
> launchctl expects the path to the plist file, not the application identifier or process ID.  Good luck.
> 
> On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Nathan Sims wrote:
> 
>> One of our users (OSX 10.6.7) has a problem with TextEdit. Somehow it has been set to be auto-launched by launchctl, and if TextEdit is quit, it is relaunched again. Using launchctl I can't seem to unload it.
>> 
>> If I do a 'launchctl list', I do see it:
>> 
>> 197	-	com.apple.TextEdit
>> 
>> But if I do a 'launchctl remove 197', I get:
>> launchctl remove error: No such process
>> 
>> If I do a 'launchctl unload com.apple.TextEdit', I get:
>> launchctl: Couldn't stat("com.apple.TextEdit"): No such file or directory
>> nothing found to unload
>> 
>> I've looked in /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, the user's ~/Library/LaunchAgents and ~/Library/LaunchDaemons, but there is no rogue com.apple.TextEdit.plist file anywhere.
>> 
>> How can I accomplish this?
>> Thanks
>> 
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