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I recently got a 2023 Mac Studio. Ever since I got everything transferred and hooked up, the system has been constantly trying to access both of my external optical drives. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Let me know what you think. Thanks in advance.
Mac Studio, macOS 15.0
n Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.
Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.
Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?
We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...
Using EtreCheck - Apple Community
EtreCheck is a FREE simple little diagnostic tool to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac. It will not display any personal info. Give it Full Disk Access.
Give etrecheck Full Disk Access before running.
Thanks for Old Toad’s etrecheck instructions…
Slow iMac 2017 - Apple Community
Disk Utility only showed the boot drive (as it should with no other external SSDs hooked up), and everything checked good. I am not running any VPN, anti-virus, or cleaning apps. Here is a link to the Etrecheck report:
That remote PDF form makes it very difficult, but...
Delete these files & restart...
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.installer.cleanupinstaller.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.micromat.TechToolProDaemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.owc.driveguide.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.micromat.TechToolProAgent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.OWC.HelperTool.RepairSRTool.plist
Deleted the files - no change.
MacOS Sequoia constantly accessing external optical drives...
