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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