Notification Exec????

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Notification Exec????

Hello All - I recently purchased a copy of MS Office 2008 --- I know, I KNOW.... But our hospital group gets it for $10. I got it to replace MS Office 2004... which ran some Power PC code.

I thought I would be rid of the code with Office '08. But I still have one process thats Power PC, here is the inspection via Activity Monitor:

/
/Library/Driver Support/NotificationExec.app/Contents/MacOS/NotificationExec
/usr/libexec/oah/Shims/Interposers.dylib
/private/var/folders/AC/ACIXhVuW2Ra0Zk BYmwM9+++TI/-Caches-/com.apple.LaunchServices-025501.csstore
/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.0.9.dylib
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
/usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
/usr/lib/dyld
/private/var/db/dyld/dyld shared_cacherosetta
/usr/libexec/oah/translate
/dev/null
->0x064b3454
->0x064b3454
/private/etc/security/audit_control
count=1, state=0x2
/private/etc/security/audit_class

I have no idea what this is - and how can I get rid of it.... Can i get rid of it????

24" iMac 3.06Ghz, MB Pro Core Duo 15" 2Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Jan 20, 2010 6:10 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Jan 20, 2010 6:33 PM in response to MichKor

You need to first uninstall Office 2004 before install the new version. Since you've already installed it you need to uninstall Office. The uninstaller is located within the Office folder. When you run the uninstaller be sure to check the option to uninstall all versions of Office. Keep the option to retain all your preferences. Then reinstall Office 2008. Hopefully that will take care of the matter.

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MichKor Author

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Jan 20, 2010 7:42 PM in response to Kappy

I don't think its office related... I trashed the app - found it in Driver support, and rebooted. I looked in the console logs, and found:

1/20/10 10:31:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[158] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist[378]) posix_spawn("/Library/Driver Support/NotificationExec.app/Contents/MacOS/NotificationExec", ...): No such file or directory

1/20/10 10:31:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[158] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist[378]) Exited with exit code: 1

1/20/10 10:31:00 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[158] (com.seagate.notificationexec.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

These all look like drive messages... I could be wrong!

I'd still like to solve this. BTW, Office detects and removes the old version during installation.

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Answer 3

Kappy

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Jan 20, 2010 7:51 PM in response to MichKor

Those are related to some Seagate software, not Office. But then you implied it was Office related in your original post.

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MichKor Author

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Jan 23, 2010 8:05 AM in response to Kappy

Yes, I did, and that was my mistake - there was another process running used by Entourage I believe - that was also a PowerPC process. That one went away with the new Office install. I was under the misunderstanding on the "NotificationExec" as being a part of that.

After seeing the "seagate" reference, I googled and I did find additional resources on the net that lead me to how to rid the system of the process.

I have followed those, and now, all is cleared up.

Thanks for your attention!

Message was edited by: MichKor

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MichKor Author

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Jan 23, 2010 8:06 AM in response to MichKor

Found the origin of the PowerPC processes and a search turned up additional information on how to remove.

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