Wireless Diagnostics

I installed another Airport extreme and used wireless diagnostics to check the network out. All look good. Now I have on the screen a file named " 2020.05.29_08-39-51 PDT.wdmon ". It has the wireless diagnostic symbol of wrench and screwdriver. When I open that file it opens a file in wireless diagnostics, a written over many times graph of the network results (MPS, signal strength , etc). I can't get rid of that file. I have tried force quit, trash. etc to no avail. I looked at activity monitor and there are two processes running with the diagnostics name, diagnosticscd and diagnostics_agent. Of course I am reluctant to terminate either of those , the first is root, the second is user, , me, in case that messes anything up. So, how do I get rid of the file inquisition. Quit the user file from Activity Monitor? Or what? Appreciate any help.

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Posted on May 31, 2020 4:47 PM

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Jun 1, 2020 10:04 AM in response to Barney-15E

MAbe, maybe not. Not sure. I suspect I just quit the app. Maybe did not quit logging. I thought of that and went back to the app and did not see a quit logging button. As I said, i went to activity monitor and there are two "diagnostics" processes running. One os for root, one for user. I was going t quit the user app thru activity monitor but was not sure that would cause an issue. That might stop the logging????

Jun 1, 2020 2:01 PM in response to Barney-15E

To rewcap: On the desktop, there is a symbol of a wrench (pointing up) and screwdriver (pointing down) with below it as title, " 2020.05.29_08-39-51-PDT.wdmn " When I click on it it opens wireless diagnostics. And I get a chart showing MBS, etc, looking like it has been written over many times. This is the same chart you get when you click performance in Wireless Diagnostics under WINDOW. And I get wireless open, and the same symbol in the dock. I cannot get rid of the symbol on the desktop. If I dump it (symbol) in the trash, a few seconds later the symbol reappears. It (symbol) does not go away when I dump the wireless Diag. app. In wireless diagnostics, none of the logs is checked. I can find nothing in activity monitor to show a process causing the "program" to run, although I might be missing it.


As to your question about file name, see above. When I go to get info, it says" kind "is Wireless Diagnostics Monitor File, "Name & extension" is the "2020..." above. "Opens" with the Wireless Diag. app. The file grows in size. Somewhere there is a program running, probably Wireless Diagnostics??? / Performance (listed under the Wireless Diagnostics/window.


So the issue is how do I get rid of the file( I will call it,) on my desktop bandstop the process from runnng. A logging program, etc.


Somewhere I have logging of the

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