Since Catalina, I get 'lsd' and 'pkd' in the activity monitor. Slows down everything.

I've been struggling with this problem for weeks, trying different things I'd read on forums (like resetting PRAM, SMC, etc.) with no luck. I finally found a post that recommended using the lsof (list open files) on the pkd and lad processes to see what they were unhappy about. In my case, it was Microsoft OneNote which I don't use and just followed Microsoft instructions to remove it. So far, pkd/lsd have been much happier.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7261268

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/remove-onenote-from-your-mac-a14a5c9c-681c-4c7a-9d6e-3605b0b30e9c

Yeah. Also, it turns out there's an easier way to solve this.

1. Open the Activity Monitor.
2. Double click on a suspicious process (in this case pkd or lsd)
3. Click on the "Open Files and Ports" tab. You'll see a list of filepaths to certain files on your computer.
4. Look for any files that you have installed (especially .app files) that appear in this list. If you can't find any, repeat steps 2 and 3 on another suspicious process.
5. Drag the file to the Trash (provided you've found it within the Finder).

Restart the machine and you should be good to go.

If the problem doesn't go away, chances are a process got stuck on yet another file, and you have to repeat from Step 1. This is what happened to me. Had to delete a batch of FCPX plugins from Library/Plug-Ins, restarted, and my computer went back to normal.

I understand some people are blaming the Adobe Creative Suite, but this was NOT the case for me, as I removed it earlier and did not solve the problem. It seems to be different for every user. Again, this is Catalina being picky with the Fonts, Apps, and Plugins that the user is installing, for whatever reason.

The same problem. PKD process freezing every soft what adresses to finder. Force to close process pkd - and everything is ok on 2-3 hours, than again.

My pkd process consumption is about 156%

Imac 2019, Catalin 10.15.3

Had been struggling for days. Using the lsof command to inspect the lsd and pkd processes totally worked!

In my case, a bunch of FCPX plugins in the Library/Plugins directory were to blame. Trashed them right away, restarted and now the system is back to normal.

macOS Catalina has been way too "beachbally" regarding Fonts, Apps, and now Plugins. Hopefully Apple takes notice and takes steps to resolve these issues.

Every time when i press "save file" in any software - opera, chrome, mail or other - mac is freezing with umbrella and i know that i need to open process monitor, kill PKD process and than it will succesfully save any file i want on my ssd

cwd
/
txt
/usr/libexec/pkd
txt
/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.Eem9Qb5X
txt
/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/SubmitDiagInfo.domains
txt
/private/var/db/analyticsd/events.whitelist
txt
/usr/lib/dyld
txt
/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat
0
/dev/null
1
/dev/null
2
/dev/null
3
/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/SubmitDiagInfo.domains

cwd
/
txt
/usr/libexec/pkd
txt
/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.Eem9Qb5X
txt
/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/SubmitDiagInfo.domains
txt
/private/var/db/analyticsd/events.whitelist
txt
/usr/lib/dyld
txt
/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat
0
/dev/null
1
/dev/null
2
/dev/null
3
/Library/Application Support/CrashReporter/SubmitDiagInfo.domains

Hate this PKD. One standart scenario that causes pkd freeze - viber, telegram - share something (files, photo) - choose what to share - and voila - 139% pkd process

Yes, i use adobe products, but i have disable ACS, but thanx for tip!

Can you explain in detail what its mean?

"Adobe’s customer support log in and clean up their applications"

Running “cleanmymac” is NEVER a solution. The cleaning of Adobe stuff is what made a difference. If mBy installing this cmm thing you are putting the fox in charge of the hen house.

Can you explain for me and others what soft i can use to explore pkd process and find the reason of this freeking pkd problem?

It can be caused by a bad drive, or a software conflict of some sort.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.