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Q: nsurlsessiond contacting swcdn.g.aaplimg using all my data

Since updating to 10.3.3 I've had to disconnect my main work computer from the internet as it is using up all our data (15 gigs/month satellite). We went through half of that in 5 days before I caught the problem. the process is nsurlsessiond which is contacting swcdn.g.aaplimg.com and when it does it begins downloading. Is this for Photos? I use iCloud extensively for everything BUT NOT photos. Never turned that on and have confirmed its not on for any device. Is there something else that uses that process to contact that service?

 

Thanks for any insight

MacMini Late 2012, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Apr 21, 2015 5:19 AM

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  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 21, 2015 5:31 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 5:31 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    My best guess:

    Restart the mac.Reconnect  WiFi/Internet. Then restart again while holding the CMD+R keys. Install OSX. This will leave your user data untouched (but of course you have backups!!).

    Lex

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 21, 2015 6:46 AM in response to Lexiepex
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    Apr 21, 2015 6:46 AM in response to Lexiepex

    Thanks Lex but I don't think that will help as I don't have the necessary download data to reinstall the OS. Or am I wrong in thinking that the above procedure requires I download and reinstall? 

     

    What I'd really like to get at is a more specific fix to the specific problem or bug. If it's something I can do (aside from reinstalling the OS which takes time, data and then more time reinstalling all of my third party apps and more data yet again) then I'm happy to do it. Even better would be a fix by Apple delivered as a software update.

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 21, 2015 7:37 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 7:37 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    The Recovery install downloads the latest version of your OS and installs it. The Recovery Partition itself is only about 650MB, and contains only some tools.

    Lex

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 21, 2015 8:10 AM in response to Lexiepex
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    Apr 21, 2015 8:10 AM in response to Lexiepex

    Ah, right. Yeah, that's what I thought. Unfortunately that won't help me much as the result of the process/bug(?) is that  I now have almost no data left so no download of Yosemite.

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Apr 21, 2015 9:17 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 9:17 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    I do not understand, "..is that  I now have almost no data left so no download of Yosemite..."

    what do you mean by that?

    What I said was, that you do the Recovery and only the OS is replaced with a fresh (latest) version...

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Apr 21, 2015 10:41 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 10:41 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    Turn off automatic updates in the App Store preference pane.

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 21, 2015 12:27 PM in response to Lexiepex
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    Apr 21, 2015 12:27 PM in response to Lexiepex

    Hey Lex, if you check the first sentence of my original post I wrote:

     

    Since updating to 10.3.3 I've had to disconnect my main work computer from the internet as it is using up all our data (15 gigs/month satellite).

     

    I'm on satellite internet which has 15 gig/month data transfer limit. In the first five days we went through half of those 15 gigs. Then another 2-3 as I tried to figure out what the problem was. In short, we're 11 days into our month and have only 3.5 gigs to last the rest of the month. A fresh download/install of the OS requires 4-6 gigs I'd guess.

     

    Hey Linc, I've always kept that off due to the data caps. Only turn it on and do updates during non-peak 2-8am hours.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Apr 21, 2015 2:37 PM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 2:37 PM in response to geekinthegarden

    Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:

    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

    ☞ In the Finder, select Go Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

    ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

    Select

              /var/log install.log

    from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select

              View Show Log List

    from the menu bar at the top of the screen. The contents of the log will appear on the right. Each log message begins with a timestamp. Select the messages from the time of the last installation or update attempt. If you're not sure when that was, click the Clear Display button in the toolbar of the Console window and then try the installation again. Select the new messages that appear. Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).

    If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.

    When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.

    Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.

    Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.

    Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. You may need to use a text editor with search and replace, such as TextEdit.

    When you post the log extract, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "The message contains invalid characters." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the text on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.

  • by etresoft,

    etresoft etresoft Apr 21, 2015 5:28 PM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 21, 2015 5:28 PM in response to geekinthegarden

    geekinthegarden wrote:

     

    I use iCloud extensively for everything BUT NOT photos. Never turned that on and have confirmed its not on for any device.

    Are you sure about that? The initial Photos setup screen is confusing. It looks just like a normal "updating database" message that you might get from Mail, but it is turning on iCloud Photos. Go to Photos > Preferences > iCloud and double-check.

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 22, 2015 4:36 AM in response to etresoft
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    Apr 22, 2015 4:36 AM in response to etresoft

    Etresoft,

     

    Yeah, I'm sure. I've already triple checked that. It was the first thing I did when I discovered the problem.

     

     

    Linc,

     

    Thanks. I'll get to that and get back with it.

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 22, 2015 4:48 AM in response to Linc Davis
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    Apr 22, 2015 4:48 AM in response to Linc Davis

    Linc.... I found this in the install.log

     

    Apr 17 22:46:20 Mac-Mini.local DownloadService[197]: Retrying download after error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1001 "The request timed out." UserInfo=0x7ff86840d6a0 {NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/21/09/031-20634/8d84o1ky5gn2agnf5kiz9ee d134n7y3q4c/RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/21/09/031-20634/8d84o1ky5gn2agnf5kiz9ee d134n7y3q4c/RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg, NSURLSessionDownloadTaskResumeData=<CFData 0x7ff8684103f0 [0x7fff7b220ed0]>{length = 2978, capacity = 4096, bytes = 0x3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d2231 ... 2f706c6973743e0a}, NSLocalizedDescription=The request timed out.}

  • by PBFZ,

    PBFZ PBFZ Apr 22, 2015 4:51 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 22, 2015 4:51 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    Download AdwareMedic App and see if it doesn't indicate adware that causes your problem.

  • by geekinthegarden,

    geekinthegarden geekinthegarden Apr 22, 2015 4:57 AM in response to etresoft
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    Apr 22, 2015 4:57 AM in response to etresoft

    Linc,

     

    Not sure if it contains any useful info but when the process started up yesterday morning I was trying to take care of a few emails and force quite it several times. Here's one of the lines from the console:

     

    4/21/15 6:46:32.016 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.nsurlsessiond_privileged[1059]) Service exited due to signal: Killed: 9

     

    I'm guessing that's not going to be very helpful but thought I'd paste it in.

  • by Linc Davis,

    Linc Davis Linc Davis Apr 22, 2015 5:41 AM in response to geekinthegarden
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    Apr 22, 2015 5:41 AM in response to geekinthegarden

    That log message is from April 17. At the time, the system was trying and failing to download a software update. If possible, connect to another network, such as the hotspot created by a cell phone, and update all software. Since your bandwidth is limited at work, if you have more than one Apple device on the network you should be operating an OS X Server with the volume-purchasing program and Caching service enabled. That way you'll only have to download each update  once.

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