Protools application manager - stops mac shutting down

[Matt Darcy]

I have pro-tools application manager on two mac's (always kept up to date).

These two macs, whenever I try to shut them down, they rarely actually complete the shutdown process and just hang until a forceful power off.

A little bit of investigation and it looks like Avid Application Manager doesn't actually shutdown / exit properly very often when it is running and you issue shutdown on your mac. I'd be interested if other people have noted their mac not shutting down properly on a regular basis with application manager installed and running. Could use some feedback before trying to progress this forward.

Thanks.

[Kirby B.]

Download and install CCleaner and in "Tools" disable it's startup

[ClaudeM]

You can uninstall Pt App manager. There is an Avid Uninstaller folder in your Applications folder.

[tamasdragon]

Simple, get rid of it. Really, a good idea but it's not working as it should.

[TVPostSound]

Originally Posted by Matt Darcy

I have pro-tools application manager on two mac's (always kept up to date).

These two macs, whenever I try to shut them down, they rarely actually complete the shutdown process and just hang until a forceful power off.

A little bit of investigation and it looks like Avid Application Manager doesn't actually shutdown / exit properly very often when it is running and you issue shutdown on your mac. I'd be interested if other people have noted their mac not shutting down properly on a regular basis with application manager installed and running. Could use some feedback before trying to progress this forward.

Thanks.

Sounds more like the Coreaudio issue.

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What OS, what version of PT??

[Matt Darcy]

what's the coreaudio issue ? I see lots of threads about how to set up and the like in a search but not specific issue related to shutdown.

I'm running 10.11.5 at the moment annoyingly, as I accidentally upgraded to 10.11.4 and hit the cpu spike problem referenced.

I'm running Protools 12.4.0.294
I'm running application manager 2.5.6.12065

Welcome your input.

thanks,

[Seafoam_Green]

I just disable it from starting up on my Mac ..., heres how (click on attachment) ..., Disable Avid APP MANAGER on Startup.jpg

After following this procedure and you restart your Mac , Application Manager will no longer load and open on startup . If you do need to open it you can however still do so from going to your Applications Folder and clicking on it from there (or elsewhere if you created a shortcut for it)

Also better apparently to check for updates directly from your Avid account than depend on the buggy App Manager.