Timeline for Can I fix things so Archive Utility doesn't hang on all zip files?
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| Jan 29, 2013 at 12:44 | comment | added | user40635 | appleeventsd is also causing "Endnote" to stop cooperating with Word, i.e. it's pretty much useless. Endnote in 10.8.2 is not working, the makers say it's Apple's fault. ... what I wonder is which adverse effects killing appleeventsd might have? | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 11:47 | comment | added | Joost | Thanks Lauri Ranta and bmike! I didn't question eventsd but went looking for a problem with Archive Utility.. glad I found this Q&A! Killing (effectively restarting) appleeventsd worked like a charm. I'll remember this one. The reproduction steps at TotalFinder's forums are indeed valid. I'm somewhat disappointed Apple did not update this yet, as the posts are months old. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 17:17 | comment | added | bmike♦ | Aah - I missed that zip was a symptom of a deeper problem - shown that other finder interactions are blocked (revealing location, unarchiving, CPU on eventsd). | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 17:06 | comment | added | Lri | @bmike Yeah, it also happens with tar.gz files. It doesn't make Finder crash or anything, but Archive Utility just shows the extracting dialog indefinitely. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 16:59 | comment | added | bmike♦ | @LauriRanta Hmm - So it's really nothing to do with the ZIP file, it's killing finder and respawning it repeatedly until inter process comms break down? Then archive utility can't get a message from Finder since appleeventsd is hung? | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 16:35 | comment | added | Lri | @bmike It's caused by all files. I've reopened appleeventsd at least 50 times by now. There are probably a lot of bug reports already, but a post at TotalFinder's support forums describes a way to reproduce it. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 15:27 | comment | added | bmike♦ | @avocade or anyone else - if you want to post a link to a zip that fails, I'll gladly file a bug report against 10.8.3 with that file attached. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:57 | comment | added | avocade | My Mac still screws things up on 10.8.2. I hope this is fixed in 10.8.3. | |
| Jan 7, 2013 at 6:57 | comment | added | apta | On 10.8.2 Archive Utility was working fine except for unzipping a password protected file. I was baffled why it would just hang with a grayed out Cancel button and I had to force quit it. Killing appleeventsd as Lauri indicated fixed the issue. Moreover, it fixed a problem I was having with Spotlight's drop down menu. When I hovered over an item and then Cmd-clicked or Cmd-R to reveal the item in Finder, the system would take me to Finder but not display the item. Now it does. The Apple Events bug appears to have vast consequences. | |
| Nov 27, 2012 at 20:47 | history | edited | Lri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 14, 2012 at 10:33 | comment | added | myhd |
I first thought killing appleeventsd was a good idea, but every time I used it, it rendered my system unusable: dead Dock, stuck Spotlight menu etc. Anyone else has this problem?
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| Nov 1, 2012 at 15:13 | history | answered | Lri | CC BY-SA 3.0 |