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) ..., Attachment 6891

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.