It's probably one of my many other apps/daemons/agents conflicting, but I tried.
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I don't really know what adguard does to be honest, I have adblock for chrome (safari is faster I admit, just I'm used to chrome extensions and it has all my bookmarks) and popup block, so I think it's redundant.Ĭlean my mac I mostly use to fully uninstall things, as dragging apps to the trashbin doesn't seem to remove all traces, but I can figure out how to do that probably pretty easily, it doesn't seem worth it, the sip I've heard both sides of the argument, not sure about that, but I'm keeping malwarebytes, and that doesn't effect my program because it boots in safe mode and guest and it still works, will make some changes and let you know if it helped.Īnyway, it works in my guest account, in main account it does not, it loses focus and refreshes every few seconds, won't let me type, and is generally messed up, I emailed with dev but he doesn't know. Thanks for looking and for the thorough explanation, I clone pretty regularly and I have time machine usually running to a thumb drive, I've heard before that cleanmymac is junk, it's just that it and adguard came as a part of a seemingly legit service (setapp) that is a subscription for numerous apps, so I wasn't sure, I'm going to try deleting them (might be easier said than done), and see if it it makes a difference with this program and general performance, my mac usually runs pretty good, except start up is slow to load, but I blame that on the ssd which I have a faster one ready to install, but it's probably the ram. Google Chrome is a known resource hog and data miner. The rest can be run when needed and closed afterward. To help the performance limit the items to only the most essential, like Keyboard Maestro and ChronoSync. You have only the bare minimum of RAM needed to run Catalina let alone the numerous apps you have in your User Login Items sections. For example for those two apps you'd do the following searches:Īny files that are found can be dragged from the search results window to the Desktop or Trash bin in the Dock for deletion.įAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like invisible folders, system folders and packages. You can check to see if you've removed all of the supporting files for those apps by downloading and running Find Any File to search for any files with the application's name and the developer's name in the file name. If you reenable SIP you won't need to have these apps at all, freeing up needed system resources. It should be removed according to the developer instructions. This user tip describes what you need to know and do to protect your Mac: Effective defenses against malware and other threats - Apple Community .
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There is no reason to ever install or run any 3rd party "cleaning", "optimizing", "speed-up", anti-virus or security apps on your Mac. Also uninstall AdGuard according to the developer's instructions. If you want to remove ads from webpages get extensions for :Safari like Ghostery or AdBlock. Also the AdGuard is a resource hog, running the background at all times.
Uninstall it according to the developer's instructions. You've install what most of the experienced contributors here consider akin to malware, CleanMyMac. Next you have SIP disabled leaving you vulnerable to any number of possible adware and malware attacks.
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Nothing worked, so I'm messing with console, ran the broken program, selected all and copy pasted to a text, but I have no idea what to make of the information, anything to look for?įirst and foremost you should make sure you have a full and current backup of your hard drive. Ran etrecheck, just told me I have a whole bunch of other programs installed, but no major problems. Ran a python script in terminal that shows which program has focus, the broken program does indeed have focus Taking out most apps from user account login items Moving all library launch agents into a folder called disabled (although I didn't restart, maybe that was necessary) It's probably one of my many other apps/daemons/agents conflicting, but I triedĭisabling all apps I could find, (can't quit the agents/daemons) I have a program called sidenotes for MacOS, I kind of need it as an intermediary to quickly jot down ideas between slower note taking apps, because I have a memory like that guy from Memento and this app is fast to write things down and I like itĪnyway, it works in my guest account, in main account it does not, it loses focus and refreshes every few seconds, won't let me type, and is generally messed up, I emailed with dev but he doesn't know. I'm pretty sure it's not safe to paste console logs because it has personal information but just wanted to make sure.