Perpetual "Background Items Added"

I went to Apple Support and they told me exactly what to do. Here it is:

1. Go to Finder > Applications > Utilities and open the Terminal app.
2. Copy and paste or run this command: sfltool resetbtm
3. Press the return key on our keyboard to run the command. If asked, enter your Mac login password.
4. Restart the Mac.

This worked for m.

I believe this behaviour is down to a notification flag failing to clear correctly.

This worked for me in Sonoma.

1. Go to ~/Library/LaunchAgents and locate all the plist files relating to the notification.
2. Move these to the trash (but DON'T delete them).
3. Restart
4. Move the files back to the ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder.
5. Notifications should appear then be gone for good once cleared.

At last, it works! The annoying 'Background Items Added' notifications are gone after this reset process!

1. Reset using "sfltool resetbtm" from Terminal
2. Reboot

Thanks a lot, muibui!

I mean it would be really, really helpful to have a detailed description

of your specific problem. Describe exactly what changes, if any, that

you've made in this new interface. Describe exactly what those

notifications say. Screenshots are immensely helpful. Please be

thorough. If you get 5 notifications, 5 screenshots would be really

nice.

Here is what happens to me.

I receive this notification when I open VMWare Fusion:

I will then go to Systems Settings and find that the notification for VMWare Fusion is set to notify (despite the fact that I had previously turned it off):

When I turn off the notification I receive the following message:

Once I provide my password, the notification is turned off:

I then use and quit VMWare Fusion. When I do so, the Systems Setting preference no longer lists VMWare:

However once I use VMWare again, I receive the same notification:

I can either "rinse and repeat" or just deal with the annoying notification coming up when ever I use VMWare Fusion. Interestingly this behavior doesn't occur with other apps on my MBP.

This is a Ventura issue..cropped up when I installed Ventura. Am currently running 13.0.1. One one account (Guest account is turned off). Shutting down the MBP and restarting doesn't address the issue.

I will do as you've suggested and file a bug report.

elisatems wrote:

Interesting. I've never heard of Mothers Ruin Software. How do I know I can trust that their product doesn't contain malware?

That's what this part is for:

When you see that, you know you can trust the recommendation.

Also, you can simply go to the Mother's Ruin web site and read the About page:

Mothers Ruin Software is the nom de guerre of one Randy Saldinger, a Seattle-based independent — and completely unpaid — developer of macOS software.

I've been using macOS since 1988 — when it was called System 6. I've been developing for macOS since 2003 — when it was called Mac OS X. I worked on the macOS Engineering team at Apple from Snow Leopard through Mavericks — when it was called OS X.

Since leaving Apple, I've been “temporarily” retired — anything is possible, but don't hold your breath — and continuing to develop for macOS to the extent it entertains me. I don't make money from this endeavor in any way, so have the luxury to do what interests me and ignore the rest.

Of course, anyone can say anything on the internet. But this is a well-known product for several years. What is fascinating is how many people will accept any number of scam products without any history, about page, or community support. As the very name suggests, it is good to be suspicious. But it seems like people are only suspicious of the people they shouldn't be and never those that merit it.

That's what this part is for:

When you see that, you know you can trust the recommendation.

When you see that it means that the author often has many mindless response pointing to the shallow excuse for support that apple provides. You notice that Apple provides no way for effective feedback pertaining to the quality of their responses (or the quality of their content such as Apple TV or the App Store UI). The constant links to 'feedback' at apple shows how difficult it is to actually give feedback ... hidden away.

For some reason some of the developers of software you've installed are not signing their certificates with their Developer Account name and not the name of the software. Googling Robby Pahlig indicated he's the developer of Launch Control and other apps.

Just ignore that settings pane.

My MacBook Pro 16-inch with M1 Pro has same issue after Ventura 13.1 update. Above notifications keep appearing again and again even though I uninstalled the Microsoft Edge.

I hope next update will fix this issue.

But what if I want to keep using the software it's notifying me about, but just not get the notifications? Won't this affect usability?

futurperfect wrote:

Since Steve Jobs left, this company is going down a slippery slope.

It's not like he quit or got fired or anything.

Didn't see any of these login items messages all through 13.1 but today when I updated my iMac Pro to 13.2 there is a stack of these windows on restart. Crazy. 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.

In Terminal, run this command:

sfltool resetbtm

and reboot.

I did not delete the .plist — but, nonetheless, running the above Terminal command and rebooting absolutely works.

More than a little annoying. I can switch these notifications off temporarily (until next restart) but I've no idea how reliant Postgres is on it's background task. Here's a little video off this "feature" in action: https://youtu.be/VnfO630LT_s

I have had multiple conversations with so-called Apple experts; no one has figured out how to deal with the problem. I shared my screen with two different reps, but neither could help me with the problem. I reinstalled the software, but the problem came back.

Tried opening in Safe Mode. Also tried Jeff Chapman's suggestions for trashing items from Launch Agents and Launch Daemon, but the problem still continues when I open System Setting and go to Login Items. I only experienced this problem when I bought a MacBook Air, upgraded to Ventura and then migrated my data over from my MacBook Pro. The problem did not show up on the MacBook Pro previously.