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Mystery application opens and swiftly closes

spaceboots06

spaceboots06

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Jun 13, 2009
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The Rotten Apple
Hi,

Several times already I've seen some mysterious application open, go to the dock to the right of system preferences and 0.5 seconds later close. Today it opened and closed when I played a flash movie in Safari but I think it has happened on other occasions. Anyone know what this is?

Thanks.
 
You could get ready to take a screenshot right when it opens?
If it's not harming anything, I don't think it's a problem.
 
could be a plugin you have installed. Open system preferences and check the icons at the bottom of the preference panes. Do any of those icons match the one you see popping up?

Also, check your 'Applications' folder for any apps that may have the same icon.


If it's not there, try invoking it by playing a flash video in safari or something, and grab a screen shot of it (Command + Shift + 3). Post it here to see if we can find out what it is.
 
Interesting. It could be the updater app to an add-on or something else that is running, like Adobe has.
 
Hmm, well, in System Preferences under Other I have

[X] Logitech Control Center
[?] DivX
[?] Flip4Mac
[?] MacFUSE
[X] Microsoft Keyboard
[X] MultiClutch
[?] Perian

Xs indicate me thinking it's not likely for these to be the ones popping up.

I'll try to grab a screenshot of this thing but I really only flashes for a second. I'm running a fairly new install of Leopard too, about half of a week I've had it.
 
Apps sometimes leave some message on the system.log, which you can easily browse via 'Utilities -> Console'. But that might be a long shot because some apps I just opened haven't left any.
 
The system logs are your best bet--whatever it is should leave some sort of note there.

That said, I'll add that Logitech Control Center's automatic updater definitely does exactly that--single half-bounce then gone. However, I'm pretty sure it only checks once a day at most (probably less, at least that I notice), so it might be another update-checker you're seeing. As an amusing side, an earlier version of LCC's updater would forget to quit after checking, leading to an increasing number of little updater processes in the dock. Logitech never has been able to program their way out of a wet paper bag, though.

Perian, Flip4Mac, and DivX also all have auto update checkers, but they all run invisibly so far as I know (like a good updater should), so it's probably not any of those.
 
7/25/09 5:05:17 PM LCCDaemon[141] Opening LCC Update in automatic mode

It was Logitech Control Center! Thanks for the help guys, the console thing worked.
 
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