For the past several months my Mac has been running out of diskspace periodically. It now seems like every 2 to 3 days. A restart always fixes it. I've determined that the process causing this is normalizerd. Is there a way that I can stop this process and make sure my Mac never ever starts it again?
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
Adding as "additional text" is the right way :-)
Nothing stands out in the report, but I tried to find out more about this normalizerd process, and it seems to be related to printing. I wonder if the software by epson that you have is associated with this. Check to see if there is an update.
Also, you probably don't need it, anyway. Certainly not for printing, and there are alternatives for scanning.
There may another reason, but this seems the most likely.
I'd try updating or uninstalling the Seiko/Epson software and see if the problem goes away.
I’d try uninstalling it to see if the problem goes away. If not you can install it again.
As I wrote before you can still print and scan without the manufacturer’s software.
Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here.
You may get an idea of what's going on if you use Activity Monitor to Inspect the process and examine what files are opened.
What does the Activity Monitor Information show for the Parent Process?
I noticed disk space dropping and saw that normalizerd had made its appearance again. It may have been related to me exporting a PDF version of a spreadsheet from libreoffice. At least I did that 4 minutes before the start time of normalizerd. Using df in /private, I found this directory: var/folders/dx/8vbyg81d4wq6fb0jz22z0b580000gn/T/normalizerd which contained a 1.4 Gbyte file called P2j000002.514. Assuming normalizerd created it, it wrote that 1.4 Gbytes in 11 minutes. The file is ASCII and contains gibberish. I'm including the first 30 lines as additional text.
I have an Epson printer and tend to keep the software updated. I did a manual update and it updated something called "Photo+" (which I'm sure I never use). But none of the other half-dozen or so Epson programs were updated.
Couldn't add as a file. Added as "additional text".
Well, this could be part of it. It looks like it could be part of some pdf or postscript code for drawing stuff.
The PPID of normalizerd is always 1.
I updated Libreoffice to 6.4.6.2. We'll see if that fixes the problem. I give it a 30% chance.
Also, I googled the first line of the aforementioned gibberish and what came up was PDF headers. So it seems very likely that this was some bug related to Libreoffice's "Export PDF" on a Mac.
normalizerd using all of my disk space
