About this mac - Storage (multiple hard drives)

I found this thread

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8554239

The solution works but only until restart but it someone understood why this kill command works and why, it may help to establish what the actual issue is and permanently resolve it.

kill -s kill $(ps aux | grep [i]Books | awk '{print $2}')

If I open the process using Command=I i get this

The text window is filled with this -

cwd

/Volumes/Second HD/Users/xx/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX.DiskSpaceEfficiency/Data

txt

/System/Applications/Books.app/Contents/PlugIns/DiskSpaceEfficiency.appex/Contents/MacOS/DiskSpaceEfficiency

txt

/Library/Preferences/Logging/.plist-cache.LNxjd0t8

txt

/usr/lib/libobjc-trampolines.dylib

txt

/private/var/db/timezone/tz/2019c.1.0/icutz/icutz44l.dat

txt

/private/var/folders/d9/h1y2rst946b5mstgszzp6sbm0000gn/0/com.apple.LaunchServices.dv/com.apple.LaunchServices-1080-v2.csstore

txt

/usr/share/icu/icudt64l.dat

txt

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/SystemAppearance.car

txt

/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/VibrantLightAppearance.car

txt

/System/Library/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc

txt

/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/UnknownFSObjectIcon.icns

txt

/usr/lib/dyld

txt

/Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store/D9F26F5A-F586-3B96-90EF-6D3B58DAD585.isdata

txt

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelKBLGraphicsVADriver.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelKBLGraphicsVADriver

txt

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCFLGraphicsVAME.bundle/Contents/MacOS/AppleIntelCFLGraphicsVAME

txt

/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial Bold.ttf

txt

/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Times New Roman Bold.ttf

txt

/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Times New Roman.ttf

txt

/Library/Fonts/Microsoft/Arial.ttf

0

/dev/null

1

/dev/null

2

/dev/null

3

->0x150d64aed6ca01ad

4

/Volumes/Second HD/Users/xx/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents/BKLibrary/BKLibrary-1-091020131601.sqlite

5

/Volumes/Second HD/Users/xx/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents/BKLibrary/BKLibrary-1-091020131601.sqlite-wal

6

/Volumes/Second HD/Users/xx/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents/BKLibrary/BKLibrary-1-091020131601.sqlite-shm

Thanks Kappy. I understand what you said about the Get Info about the individual drives and that does work & is accurate but I am perplexed about this.

Books app doesn't open, only the process. There is no dot under the app in the dock to indicate the app is open & finder says the last opened date was the 28th of January, despite the photo above showing it opening today.

When you looked at your mac, did you notice what process did open when the you went to storage on "About this mac" with activity monitor open. This may assist me in tracking down why I have this anomaly.

Thanks

Thanks Kappy I modified the user account name to post, it is not xx. It is my name, which I do not broadcast online. It would be fairly pointless to have a user name that is not your name and then broadcast your real name online.

Again I stress, Books does not open, just a process as described through the information above. I'll try it in safe mode.

So safe mode replicates the issue, but a new test account does not.

This appears to be something that is not OS related but related to my account. I may have to rebuild that, I'd like to understand more about why this process opens. From above I can't ascertain why? I can see where it points to and that folder is old shortcuts and very little information held in those folders. Just a loop of shortcuts that appear to go nowhere.

Etrecheck shows the process as DiskSpaceEfficiency, not Books. Probably why the Books App does not open (thats a guess not based on anything other than speculation).

I wish I knew a way to kill this process for good.