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I'm writing my doctoral thesis on a Macbook pro using MS Word 2011 and Endnote X6 (Mac Word and Endnote on the newest version). Word responses really slowly to any input like typing or scrolling, with a delay of sometimes more than 4 seconds. Super annoying. My google-research on the problem led to the conclusion that there is no resolution yet. BUT: a workaround is to kill the process "appleeventsd" in Activity Monitor.
And that works super well, killing it lets word respond immediately again, without any delay.
Now my problem: appleeventsd starts again after a couple of minutes, sometimes just 2. This is really annoying because I can't really concentrate on working for a longer period of time as I always get interrupted by having to kill appleeventsd.
Does anybody have an idea how to fix this? What is appleeventsd doing for me? Do I even need it? Could I completely delete it from my system in order to prevent it from starting again? Or can I at least prevent it from restarting after I killed it so I can focus on working without interruptions?
Thank you so much for your help!!
Alek
Al Ek
Posted 2013-03-02T13:47:31.227
Reputation: 29
It's a known bug with the Apple Events Daemon in 10.8.2 which affects lots of apps, and I doubt you can do anything to fix it besides running
– Karan – 2013-03-02T23:50:11.793sudo killall -KILL appleeventsdrepeatedly and waiting for Apple to release an update.do you know a way to kill it automatically? What is actually annoying is having to do it by myself all the time. – Al Ek – 2013-03-03T00:10:23.790
like a script or so? – Al Ek – 2013-03-03T00:19:31.583
I guess you can use something like cron (here's a free frontend) or launchd or perhaps even Automator to repeatedly run the
– Karan – 2013-03-03T00:53:50.953killallcommand. Apple.SE would be a good place to ask.Hey, I was trying cronix but it always crashed unexpectedly. – Al Ek – 2013-03-03T13:36:38.897
So I tried automator, but I kind of don't get how to run a sudo command in automator. I do have to choose "execute a shell script" in automator, right? – Al Ek – 2013-03-03T13:37:39.120
You're welcome, and I encourage you to post the script/workaround below as an answer to your own question. If it needs to be cleaned up, someone is likely to get round to it (eventually). :) – Karan – 2013-03-03T22:54:29.020
As @Karen suggested, please post the script you are using as a solution so that others can benefit from it. I am having a similar issue with appleeventsd and would like to try out your solution. – jbranchaud – 2013-03-15T20:43:32.650