Barrage of "Background Items Added" notifications

[mattmower]

I upgraded from macOS 12 to 13.1 this morning.

One of the less pleasant consequences is a barrage (arriving at 10s intervals) of notifications:

Background Items Added
"postgres" is an item that can run in the background. You can manage this in Login Items Settings.

Okay, so in the first place, I get 2 notifications at a time because it seems to have two copies of the login item. I can't delete either of them. They are enabled, and I've tried toggling off-and-on-again, but that makes no difference. The notifications *keep coming*.

The only thing that stops them is if I keep the login items turned off, which means I will have to start postgres manually from now on.

Has anyone come across this and have a better answer? Google recognises the problem somewhat, but I can't find a better solution.

Thanks.

Matt

 

[mattmower]

I noticed a pending homebrew upgrade for PostgreSQL, and after upgrading, I only got two more notifications.

 

[bogdanw]

Probably some arguments (StartInterval maybe) in the plist files are triggering the repeated notifications.
You can try to modify them or create your own simple launch agent to start postgres.
Related https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-items-hide.2366349/post-31680952

 

[mattmower]

Probably some arguments (StartInterval maybe) in the plist files are triggering the repeated notifications.
You can try to modify them or create your own simple launch agent to start postgres.
Related https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/login-items-hide.2366349/post-31680952

Thanks, bogdanw; as I mentioned in my follow-up (you might have been writing your message at the same time), it settled down after an update to PGSQL. I'd just updated yesterday, so I don't think the update was specifically about that bug, but it might have unbottled a version specific to Ventura. Anyway, I'm grateful for your trying to help. M.

 

[NoBoMac]

My $0.02: from my experience, you'll get these messages anytime the plist in Launch* changes OR the programs they call change.

For example, I have a launch agent to run at boot a shell script I have to do some tasks/checks. Anytime I make a change to that script, I get the message.

Or in the case of Google Chrome, I don't want it phoning home to check for updates, so I delete the update items. Start Chrome, it recreates those objects and I get the messages (getting around this by taking away all rights to these launch agents for everyone and setting the unchangeable attribute on them as well).

 

[bogdanw]

you might have been writing your message at the same time

Exactly

getting around this by taking away all rights to these launch agents for everyone and setting the unchangeable attribute on them as well

I replace them with folders with the same name.

 

[SimoByst]

I upgraded from macOS 12 to 13.1 this morning.

One of the less pleasant consequences is a barrage (arriving at 10s intervals) of notifications:



Okay, so in the first place, I get 2 notifications at a time because it seems to have two copies of the login item. I can't delete either of them. They are enabled, and I've tried toggling off-and-on-again, but that makes no difference. The notifications *keep coming*.

The only thing that stops them is if I keep the login items turned off, which means I will have to start postgres manually from now on.

Has anyone come across this and have a better answer? Google recognises the problem somewhat, but I can't find a better solution.

Thanks.

Matt

I had this problem and a person on Apple Senior support helped me with it!



Write this into spotlight search:



~/Library/LaunchAgents



Then you simply delete the files that cause the notification issue.



You can alternatively install a cleaning program such as CleanMyMacX or Avast cleanup.

 

[mattmower]

The advice to remove launch agents is terrible generic advice. For example, I *want* postgres to run in the background and have permitted its agent to do so. This is the OS being crap.

 

[MacGizmo]

I had this problem and a person on Apple Senior support helped me with it!
Write this into spotlight search:
~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then you simply delete the files that cause the notification issue.
You can alternatively install a cleaning program such as CleanMyMacX or Avast cleanup.

• I don't believe you had this problem.
• I don't believe you spoke to anyone at Apple.
• I don't believe any "senior support" from Apple would advise anyone to remove only a LaunchAgent and not the app that put the LaunchAgent there to begin with.
• I believe your advice is truly horrible.

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