Why is VDCASSISTANT running?

[Ilovemacs1]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but does anyone have any idea why vdcassistant pops up in Activity Monitor when I access the web? Image Capture Extension was also running for no reason the other day. I'm on a 2010 Macbook pro running 10.6.8.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but does anyone have any idea why vdcassistant pops up in Activity Monitor when I access the web? Image Capture Extension was also running for no reason the other day. I'm on a 2010 Macbook pro running 10.6.8.

Image Capture Extension is a part of Mac OS X... though I have no idea what it does. I've never seen vdcassistant before - perhaps it's part of Microsoft Office 2010 if you have that installed.

 

[benthewraith]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but does anyone have any idea why vdcassistant pops up in Activity Monitor when I access the web? Image Capture Extension was also running for no reason the other day. I'm on a 2010 Macbook pro running 10.6.8.

VDCAssistant is related to the iSight camera.

 

[Ilovemacs1]

Thanks for trying but this doesn't really tell me anything... Can anyone help me out here?

 

[GGJstudios]

Thanks for trying but this doesn't really tell me anything... Can anyone help me out here?

They just answered your question.

Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes?
Understand Mac OS X processes

 

[dirt farmer]

Yes, it's the Daemon for the built-in iSight camera.


In Finder, navigate to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/

Select the file com.apple.mio.VDCAssistant.plist and delete.

Restart your system.

See if this keeps popping up.

 

[Ilovemacs1]

Thanks Dirt Farmer. I can't find that file on my machine through that particular path... However, when I click on the process in Activity Monitor I find this under the "Open Files And Ports" tab:

 /
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreMediaIOServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/VDC.plugin/Contents/Resources/VDCAssistant
/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/IOUSBLib.bundle/Contents/MacOS/IOUSBLib
/private/var/folders/Bv/BvuKScAvG-S4Kokowg+L+k+++TQ/-Caches-/com.apple.LaunchServices-025503.csstore
/usr/share/icu/icudt40l.dat
/usr/lib/dyld
/private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64
/dev/null
->0x0d578774
->0x0d578774
/private/etc/security/audit_control
count=1, state=0x2
/private/etc/security/audit_class

 

[Otterbox]

alt key

If you hold alt/option while clicking on go in the menu bar, Library reveals itself. That might be why you couldn't find the files.
Also for me a lot of com.apple files are located in /Library/Cache.