What is FP-Injector, what really means ???

HI,

Do you have any Adobe software installed? Check out this thread.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/348483

From that link ...

What is FP-Injector

It is a piece of code injection software that is part of finderpop. It uses similar tactics to computer viruses to "enhance" the OS by injecting pieces of code into running processes (such as finder or Lightroom). If you run critical software you should not be running that crap on your machine. It will cause issues. To the person that had the Lightroom running wild issue, get rid of such crap immediately. There are several others that are know to cause issues with Lightroom and many other pieces of software."





Carolyn 🙂

how does one remove this 'piece of crap'? I believe the only adobe app I have installed is pdf reader stuff.. I can kill it (FP-injector) in activity monitor, but one thinks that it will just rear it's ugly hear again, sooner or later 😟

Message was edited by: funkright

As the author of said "piece of crap", you can remove FinderPop via:

System Preferences -> FinderPop -> "Etc" tab -> "Uninstall FinderPop"

@funkright: FP-Injector is not part of any Adobe software, it's part of the FinderPop (www.finderpop.com) utility which I wrote. Though obviously it's of little utility to you since you seem to be having problems with it -- sorry.

If you are having FinderPop-related problems, let me know what they are and I will do my best to fix them.

No offense intended, I mixed up Adobe and this software in my posting (inferring the crap comment to your software not to the Adobe sw it referred to). Sorry bout that. I've had the FP-Injector do this to me several times, cause system processes to run at or near 100%, but it must be caused by some Adobe sw on my system having an issue with it.

No worries, no offense taken - I have a thick skin 🙂

It is highly unlikely to be Adobe's fault, and very likely indeed to be my fault.

Anyway, can you remember which version of FinderPop you were using? There was a bug with older (pre 2.2.0) versions where the FP-Injector process would go into an infinite loop. If this still happens with 2.2.0 (the most recent official FinderPop version), maybe I didn't fix it after all, but no-one has mentioned it to me before now.

Does anything appear on the Console.app window while FP-Injector is locked up?

Sorry for all the questions, and maybe they don't belong here in this forum - feel free to contact me at turly AT finderpop DOT com to see if I can help sort this out.

version that was running (installed) was 2.1, just reinstalled 2.2 and relaunched. If issues continue or arise again I will let you know and answer the questions posed.

Yes, FinderPop 2.1 definitely had that FP-Injector-goes-into-an-infinite-loop problem - sorry. Like I say, should be fixed now.

Let me know if you experience any other issues, and Good Luck!