AEServer explained

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_release_notes

MacBook Air

Posted on Oct 22, 2019 6:12 AM

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Posted on May 24, 2020 12:49 PM

@mwill11416. AEServer is a function initiated by developers is true. However, if you notice it talks about remote access/apple events. An example of this would be "Find my Mac" or if you were going to update a group of computers with an update at the same time. Sometimes purchased software may offer some form of sharing to other computers. Based on what I read these would all be a function of AEServer. BUT... If you haven't enabled "Find My Mac" nor want access to your Mac from another computer/device then just "uncheck" the box next to AEServer. Don't remove it, because you may find doing so impedes some feature you hadn't previously thought of as remote access.


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Sep 8, 2020 8:15 PM in response to doHernandez

Im not debating or disbelieve this answer... but if this server has been here for decades then why does it tell me this file or "server" is a file that was created (and compressed...) over a year after this computer was released and then sent to a folder where it remains the only file...

It is a bit paranoid to question this, but I have had one other MacBook (2014- the ex broke it :() and it never did the weird things this one does. It also didn't do it as often. This computer freezes, display pixelizes, files delete on their own, files move on their own and duplicate, also these kinds of files all of a sudden appear after (or sometimes before) these problems occur and they scatter themselves among the computer in folders I cannot see normally or ever access... Its just weird for these necessary, normal, traditional (whatever) files and "servers" to appear well after I first set the computer up. Plus they take up an ungodly amounts of space. My "others" storage is over 10GB...

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