HI again Ronni and others. Last night I had an opportunity to further look into this. As I couldn't boot the HDD from the MBP directly, I removed it and first mounted it to my wife's MBP as the host. I was able to review into teh drive to see if there was any remaining evidence of teh SMC Fan Controller software using the "Leftover" search below. Nothing found. Then using System Preferences>Startup Disc - I changed it over to the externally connected [via SATA] from which the MBP rebooted itself. It took some time but successfully booted and there was no evidence of the SMC Fan Controller visible (Menu Bar - nothing) and Login Items nothing there. From this I am happy now that I can simply use MA to bring over the data into Tim's new machine when I get it whilst connected over SATA adaptor. I hope that process is trouble free as it has been for me on a number of previous occasions. Thanks for help along the journey from those here. Pete.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To:"WAMUG" Cc: Sent:Mon, 28 May 2018 18:26:50 +0800 Subject:Re: Migration Assistant selective restoration of data Hi Peter, If you can get rid of SMCfanControl first on Tim’s MBP before doing a Migration from old MBP to New MBP/MBA I feel it would be safer.I’ve given as much detail as I can below on where you will find all the associated files SMCfanControl installs across the System.----HOW TO COMPLETELY UNINSTALL SMCFANCONTROL & ALL SUPPORTIVE FILES, CACHE FILES & OTHER ASSOCIATED ITEMS CREATED DURING THE SETUP AND DAILY USAGE After you delete this app from sight, its icon may still stay on the menu bar and your fan speed is still under the control of this app. So to FULLY UNINSTALL SMCFANCONTROL FOR MAC AND RESTORE THE DEFAULT FAN RPM? _PRIOR TO THE UNINSTALL_, you are supposed to restore the Apple defaults of fan speed, and then deactivate the app. 1. Click on smcFanControl icon on the menu bar, and choose ACTIVE SETTING: > DEFAULT. 2. Quit smcFanControl in the menu bar.Besides, you can launch Activity Monitor to check if it is running on the background.Open up ACTIVITY MONITOR from the Dock, Launchpad, or Spotlight.Select _target process_, and click the “_QUIT PROCES_s” button in the upper left corner.3. Open Finder, select Applications in the sidebar and delete/drag SMCFANCONTROL to the Trashor control-click on the app & click ’_MOVE TO TRASH_(In your case Peter I think you said it is in the Downloads folder) DELETE SMCFANCONTROL LEFTOVERS 1.Open the Finder, click Go in the Menu bar, and select the option Go to Folder…2.Type the path of USER LIBRARY inside _HOME FOLDER_: ~/LIBRARY and then hit Enter key.3.Type SMCFANCONTROL IN THE SEARCH BAR, select Library, and delete matched items in the result. 4. Type the path of the current user’s LIBRARY FOLDER: /LIBRARY, and then hit Enter key.5. Search for the associated items in the following locations: /Library, /Library/Caches, /Library/Preferences, /Library/Application Support, /Library/LaunchAgents, /Library/LaunchDaemons, /Library/PreferencePanes, /Library/StartupItemsControl-click the matched files or folders, and select Move to Trash option. 6. EMPTY THE TRASH Cheers,Ronni 13-INCH MACBOOK AIR (APRIL 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 On 28 May 2018, at 4:49 pm, [email protected] [1] wrote: Ok, thanks Alan, your notes and those from Neil I will explore and tread carefully. Kind Regards Pete. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] [2] To:"WAMUG Mailing List" Cc: Sent:Sun, 27 May 2018 21:16:50 +0800 Subject:Re: Migration Assistant selective restoration of data Hi Pete I think the easiest way would be to do a complete migration and sort out SMC Fan Control later. SMC Fan Control has been around for a few years and is not malware. In between shopping for a MBA you could investigate how to remove all traces of it. Apple support discussion guide is simple: trash the app then reset the SMC! To be really really sure, the more difficult way would be a complete fresh installation. Install macOS, download wanted apps then copy required data. To verify HDD contents would be tedious. Can you make a bootable of clone the HDD? You could then start up from the clone in another Mac and check where the fan control files are. Cheers Alan > On 27 May 2018, at 8:01 pm, Peter Crisp wrote: > > Hi, recently I had my son’s MBP fail with what I believe was from his installation of some third party software which was SMC Fan controller. I am in the process of getting myself a replacement Macbook (likely Macbook Air). Before the MBP failed I did actually get it to successfully complete a Time Machine backup BUT this was with the 3rd party software still in place and therefore embedded within the settings. I don’t know where else it may have been located within the file structure, but I want to make sure I do not bring that SMC Fan Controller back into a replacement MBA. > > During the process of it failing, I managed to mount the HDD via SATA adaptor to another MBP and locate and trash the SMC Fan Controller. > > I wonder would I be better off trying to selectively drag/drop data from the HDD when mounted via SATA adaptor or would it be more ‘complete’ if I used Migration Assistant to use an Ethernet connection to restore data from the TM backup but carefully select what I restore so as not to bring back the ‘infected’ settings. > > It is my 14YO son after all and it’s not like he has lots of important data to restore either. Main things I can think of are iTunes library, Photos library. My preference is Migration Assistant for the completeness of how it doe it all. Maybe there is a part MA and part manual drag/drop. > > Is there some other way I can test the HDD contents in a SATA mounted state and verify before doing the actual migration to a replacement MBA? > > Regards > > > Pete > Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] mailto:[email protected] [3] mailto:[email protected] [4] mailto:[email protected]
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