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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