Launchctl Error Unloading Com.apple.folderactions.folders

Please enter a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. This discussion is locked Loren Ryter Level 3 (507 points) Mac OS X Q: Folder Actions will not work - tried everything Recently Folder Actions simply stopped working on 10.6.4. They worked fine before then recently just stopped working.I've tried everything I can think of, including:1. completely removing enabling & disabling & enabling folder actions through the setup app.2. trashing folder actions plist files in user domain and relaunching3. disabling related launchd processes with lingon4. trashing launch agents in user domain and also trying to unload them in terminal5. trying to kill the folder actions dispatcher process in activity monitor (just relaunches, as it should)6. emptying system caches including dyld shared cache using cocktail7. doing most of the above and restartingIt's driving me nuts. Any other ideas?here's some entries from syslog:
8/2/10 9:31:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
8/2/10 9:37:29 AM Folder Actions Setup[4403] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:43:37 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.enabled[309]) Exited: Killed
8/2/10 9:46:23 AM [0x0-0x3a03a].com.apple.systemevents[360] com.apple.FolderActions.enabled: Already loaded
8/2/10 9:52:07 AM Folder Actions Setup[1083] * WARNING: Method selectedRowEnumerator in class NSTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
8/2/10 9:52:16 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 7 seconds
8/2/10 9:53:02 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[269] (com.apple.FolderActions.folders) Throttling respawn: Will start in 1 seconds
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machine would slow to a virtually unusable crawl. I never used Spotlight, so turning it off completely fixed the problem for me. Here's how: --For 10.5--- https://www.rsmas.miami.edu/users/agleason/comp_other/mds.html (from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892) This is how to disable Spotlight completely in 10.5: 0) Start Terminal and enter the following commands 1) stop and disable the spotlight application itself: cd /System/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl unload com.apple.Spotlight.plist sudo launchctl https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/2822/auto-rename-your-episodes/p4 unload -w com.apple.Spotlight.plist Just ignore the errormessage from the last command. The first command stops the application for the current user. The second command disables for every user. The reason you get the error launchctl error is that you are effectively executing the command as root, but the root user hasn't any running instance of Spotlight. On the other hand, only the root user is able to disable the automatic start of Spotlight. Thus the need for the sudo command. 2) stop and disable the background server: cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons sudo launchctl unload -w com.apple.metadata.mds.plist 3) remove the .Spotlight-V100 directories sudo find / -iname '.Spotlight-V100' -type launchctl error unloading d -maxdepth 3 -print0 | xargs -0 -t -n1 sudo rm -rf The find part searches for the Spotlight directories and will find the one at the system root as well as on any partitions and attached drives in /Volumes. The -print0 part is there to guard against any spaces and other special characters in filenames when executing the following rm command. The .Spotlight-V100 folders are actually empty. Stopping the mds server does this, so if you aren't bothered by these vestiges of the process, you can ignore this step. 4) there's no need to reboot your computer after following these steps. The reason the original poster had to recommend this is because his approach is - I'm sorry to say so - faulty. As one of the previous posters noted, it's bad practise to remove any of the files that Apple has installed. It's much better to modify their settings. 5) If only some of your accounts need/want to have Spotlight enabled, you can copy the /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist to the users own ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder and enable/start Spotligth: cp /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Spotlight.plist ---For 10.4--- To turn spotlight off totally: first modify /etc/hostconfig to read: SPOTLIGHT=-NO- Then to get rid of the e

Guidelines (also conveniently linked in the header at the top of each page). There, you'll find guidelines on conduct, tips on getting the help you may be searching for, and more! Auto-rename your episodes «1234567…26» Go Comments embeddedcoder Plug-in Dev Posts: 799Members February 2009 Let's get this one solved. If you're having trouble please post or PM the console logs. Open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app Drop an episode into one of the folders you're watching with Episode Linker. You can drag one of the files out and back in if that's easier. Select the lines that appear in the Console. Press command-C to copy them. Here's what mine looks like: [codebox] 2009/02/05 12:13:21 com.softwarefromspace.com[7505] folder action called 2009/02/05 12:13:21 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker.helper[7506] run handler called 2009/02/05 12:13:22 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7507] Settings loaded 2009/02/05 12:13:22 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7508] Starting linking 2009/02/05 12:13:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7512] /Users/myUserName/Documents/ELOut/Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Season 1/Space Ghost and Dino Boy - S1E01.m2v 2009/02/05 12:13:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7512] /Users/myUserName/Documents/ELOut/Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Season 1/Space Ghost and Dino Boy - S1E01.m2v 2009/02/05 12:13:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7517] /Users/myUserName/Documents/ELin/Space Ghost and Dino Boy s01e01 - The Ovens Of Moltar.m2v to /Users/myUserName/Documents/ELOut/Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Season 1/Space Ghost and Dino Boy - S1E01.m2v 2009/02/05 12:13:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7518] Finished linking 2009/02/05 12:13:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7519] Updating PlexDB 2009/02/05 12:13:27 /System/Library/CoreServices/AppleScript Runner.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleScript Runner[7504] CPSGetFrontProcess(): This call is deprecated and should not be called anymore. [/codebox] Here's the Console log using the Run button in EL: [codebox] 2009/02/05 12:17:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7544] Starting linking 2009/02/05 12:17:27 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7544] Starting linking 2009/02/05 12:17:34 com.softwarefromspace.episodelinker[7568] /Users/myUserName/Documents/ELOut/Space Ghost and Dino Boy/Season 1/Space Ghost and Dino Boy - S1E01.m2v 2009/02