Perpetual "Background Items Added"

I deleted the gotomeeting app and that's when these background notices started happening. And they are relentless. So removing the app doesn't seem to stop it from happening. For those of us that don't know what LaunchApps is or where it is located, can you give more detailed instructions?

Also, I just found the launchapps file but which one is go to meeting using and if I delete it will I cause some damage.

No guarantee it won't cause damage, but if you click on the (i) thingie next to the Login Item in System Preferences, it will bring up the file in the Finder. It appears that the two offending files (at least on my system) are

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.GoToMeeting.G2MAIRUploader.plist

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.logmein.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate.plist

Good luck!

I'm not an expert on this issue, but I believe that deleting items from these two folders only removes them from the "Login Items" section in System Settings. I don't believe this action uninstalls the apps. In my case, the two items that I deleted from these folders were leftover fragments from apps that I previously uninstalled. I suggest you use caution before you delete items from these folders.

Did you click on the (i) (Info) button next to the login item in System Preferences -> General -> Login Items? That should bring up the file in the Finder, wherever it happens to be on your system.

Note: the ~ in the pathname I gave means your home directory; ~/Library is NOT the same thing as /Library.

I just restarted my Mac for the first time after deleting those files. No G2MUpdate notifications, and the two login items are gone from the list in System Preferences. Hopefully those particular notifications are gone for good. They had been a royal pain ever since I updated to Ventura a couple of months ago. I had uninstalled GoToMeeting over a year ago when my university required us to switch to Microsoft Teams instead. I don't think your G2MUpdate notifications will stop until you find those files and delete them (assuming you have uninstalled the app - LogMeIn's instructions say you only have to drag the app file to the Trash, but obviously that is not enough).

To those folks who suggested deleting EVERYTHING in ~/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons}... PLEASE don't do that. As others have posted, this is guaranteed to break the apps that depend on those files. Deleting certain files in those folders is a last-ditch measure to get rid of notifications from UNINSTALLED apps.

I'm a little late to this issue, but what solved it for me was to uninstall and reinstall the apps that generated the notifications. I know this can be a pain, but it worked.

For me, it was two apps; one, I was no longer using and the other, was Stream Deck. Stream Deck is owned by Corsair Inc, which was the title of the background item notification. So sometimes, it's not obvious which app is the cause.

Reinstalling apps does help.

I've managed to get rid of all of my notifications, bar one.

However, this is not something we should be working around — it's an Apple bug, plain and simple.

It needs to be fixed.

Thanks for the G2MUpdate. This is actually a ****** folder insider the Library folder that I just deleted. I also found the two files you mentioned earlier which us under Launch Agents....the logmein.GoToMeeting. Killing these and going to reboot. Hopefully this helps. I couldn't find these till I read your information. Thanks.

I worked with apple support and deleted the respective files in Launchagents and launchdaemons and it fixed the problem. I then updated to Ventura 13.2. I've had this problem since I bought this system 1/15/23. I'm glad it's fixed.

As so many people have stated....this is an ongoing pain. Every time I boot up I end up playing Space Invaders literally for a few minutes, clicking out of these ridiculous messages. I've disabled notifications, deleted the associate apps, which by the way I periodically need, but to no avail they just keep coming back. There are several apps, but Epson is the one that comes to mind. What happened to the days when my laptop, desktop, and phone were actually mine and not some pony ride designed to make me conform to some pre determined idea of how I should using it.

There is alot of blabber here on this site but elisatems is the only one who knows what she is talking about. Her solution worked really well. You have to find the two different "library files" and in one of them I found these ****** G2M files. Once deleted everything went away, both the notices and it also deleted the presence of the G2M file that shows up in the Background section of "open at Login inside the General File of Settings!

Yes, blabber. That may be because of the hundreds of people experiencing this problem. Most of these people work for a living and don't have time to putz around looking for erroneous files that may, or may not resolve the problem. The point is that the issue shouldn't exist in the first place.

Take no offense please. I do really that contributors are offering their best effort and it is appreciated, believe me! And you are exactly right. The fact that this is happening and is so frustrating to resolve really suggests that Apple should have prepared some official guidance to help resolve it. The good news is this group has solved it. Best regards.

Same. Took about 5 minutes following @etresoft's guidance. Unfortunately, several big companies (Microsoft, Google, and Steam) cannot update their software to respect the Login Items. Instead, I'll have to deal with quitting their apps each day or deleting them rather than removing them from the area of System Preferences that Apple provides. Either that or upgrade my 8 GB M1/M2 MBAs, as I'm running into high TBW from too much multitasking/app usage.

I have been able to delete them.

I would prefer to only disable this annoying message. One time is enough, then simply mute it (them).

I want to disable some tasks from running since I keep this software on my disk, just don't need it running all the time. Disabling the notifications is the minimal change I need, rather than deleting the software.

Trying to figure out what Dawei Guo belongs to. Weird stuff. If it said "apple pie" instead of Dawei Guo it wouldn't be as bad.

That wouldn't get you anywhere, either. There is an Apple Pie project that you will find, but it isn't creating software that runs a background process.

Searching for "developer named Dawei Duo" provides several hints as to what you installed.