Sierra menumeters12/23/2023 ![]() It is readily apparent that you, 'Raw Mac', are a former - longtime PC ('windoze') user. I'm hoping it does and I hope it works for you. I have a new 2016 MacBP and have yet to make this change to see if it works again. I did this successfully on my 2009 MacBook Pro. This silenced the app from being able to launch. (not the exact path) select get info for the parent folder and change the permissions to -no read or write. ![]() The key was to locate the offending Google update folder or the Ksfetch file in the 'username'/library/preference folder. I did find one article deeply buried in the internet that provided a simple method that worked at the time. I have tried using terminal to kill this process without success. This is because this process keeps reinventing itself somehow so that the allow or block always command is not effective. It’s not exactly hard though, is it?Īny of you that uses a program that monitors CPU usage or tracks any programs that are calling home without your exclusive permission like Little Snitch will find KSfetch will continually pop up whether you block it or give it permission 'always' leading to a constant need to either block or give permission several times per hour. You will need to manually check for updates, download them and install them. The downside of removing ksfetch is that Google software like Chrome, will not automatically update. ![]() Click in the Terminal window and press Command+V to paste it. Click and drag over it with the mouse and press Command+C to copy it. That is a big command (all on one line again), so don’t type it in. Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/ (Enter all on one line.) To remove ksfetch for all users, enter: Resources/GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent.app/Contents/Resources/install.py -uninstall ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/ At the command prompt, enter the following to uninstall ksfetch for the current user: Go to Applications/Utilities and run Terminal. It is possible to stop ksfetch from running, but you need to enter some commands from the Terminal. The phone then accesses the internet through 3G.ĭata usage is limited on a mobile phone though and typically you get 0.5 or 1GB a month, which isn’t much, especially if the Mac is downloading 35+ MB before you have even started to do any work. When the Wi-Fi doesn’t work I turn my phone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and connect to it. Occasionally, they don’t work (sometimes they just need to reboot the router, so it’s worth asking someone if they can do this). When I am out with my MacBook I always use a free Wi-Fi hotspot to get on the internet. Some people complain that it triggers and alert several times an hour.Īnother problem is that if you are on a slow internet connection, your Mac could be slow for five minutes after starting up, or whenever ksfetch runs.Īn issue that I have is the bandwidth used. There are several potential problems with ksfetch and one is that it can cause issues with third party firewalls. If you have or have had Google Chrome or Google Drive or something else from Google on your Mac then you will have ksfetch, but you won’t see it unless you run Activity Monitor at the right time, just as it is running. It runs automatically and checks for updates, then downloads them and installs them if there are any available. This screen shot was taken about a minute after starting up and ksfetch them disappears from Activity Monitor because it quits and only running apps and services are displayed.Īfter some research it was discovered that ksfetch is Google’s software updater. Here you can see that ksfetch is responsible for downloading 35.9 MB. Selecting the Network tab in Activity Monitor shows all the apps and services that are running in the background and clicking the Rcvd Bytes heading sorts them into order with the highest at the top (click again if the lowest is at the top). MenuMeters showed the internet bandwidth being used was very high, but it didn’t show what was using it. Opening Activity Monitor in the Applications/Utilities folder lets you look at what is happening underneath the pretty OS X interface. When your Mac is slow for some reason, MenuMeters can tell you why - high processor, disk, internet or memory usage. Without MenuMeters or a similar utility, this behaviour would go unnoticed, which is why it is so useful. Downloads run at maximum speed for a minute on boot up. When starting the Mac I noticed that something downloads a lot of data and it can be seen in the download speed in the MenuMeters display in the menu bar. ![]() This utility makes it easy to spot problems that might otherwise be missed and it highlighted an issue with ksfetch. This is a menu bar utility that shows processor usage, disk usage, upload and download speed, and free and used memory. I like to keep an eye on what is happening on my Mac and a utility that I have used for a long time is MenuMeters.
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