coreaudiod and launchd 100% monopolizing CPU All the Time

Download and run this little "discovery" utility, Etrecheck. It takes a look around your Mac from the inside. It fixes NOTHING! its sole purpose is to generate a report that can be used to see what is happening.

If you follow the instruction precisely, a pre-sanitized (of any personally-identifiable information) report can be 'Shared' to the Clipboard, then posted to the forums using the 'Additional Text' icon in the reply footer online.

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hat folder is NOT in the right place.

~/Library/Preferences/Audio

the folder in the procedure is in YOUR Userid folder, and you have omitted to absolutely essential tilde[~] on the beginning, whcoih would place it in the library of 'Current User'.

You have instead cited a folder in the main system Library folder, which is not what is needed.

when correctly placed, that folder will show in

YourBootDrive/Users/YourUsername/Library/Preferences

Readers here love MalwareBytes for its ability to scan ON DEMAND. But we do not love it seeing it running at all times, punishing performance while it does the same work it already did, over and over and over.

You should set it to scan ONLY on demand, or remove it entirely.

you have some sort of App deleter. there is no place for such stuff on your Mac. you= should be using the App maker;s un-installer, not that name-guesser:

User Login Items:

  [Not Loaded] AppCleaner SmartDelete (Julien Ramseier - installed 2023-11-01)

    Modern Login Item

    /Applications/AppCleaner.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/AppCleaner SmartDelete.app

After working on that for a while, do you now have the folder that suggestion is talking about, now existing where it should and and owned by admin with read/write permission?

can you Finder > GetInfo on that folder and post a screenshot to verify?

Have you done a Restart since you created that folder?

this is what mine looks like:

I suggest you add Admin:read/write to that folder, and see if a Restart will fill it with the other folders, or consider adding them manually.

you appear to be running a Bit Torrent app. While these can be great for obtaining certain things, they also mean your Mac is an active SOURCE for fragments of files shared with others. Time for that to GO.

These are all obsolete, and should be removed:

Ssilverlight

Flip4Mac

Perian

Disk warrior is obsolete, and now that drives cost pocket-money instead of 'mortgage your house' money, 'Best Practice' is to be running Time machine, or RELIGIOUSLY adhering to a backup schedule.

After that, is there still a compelling reason to have System Integrity Protection disabled? it should be enabled to protect your Mac.

I truly have NO IDEA what is supposed to be where, only that, according to the script directions you posted, the important items will be in the ~/Library folder (under your User-id), not in the main /Library folder, based solely on the directions you said you found somewhere. Have you done a Restart since you created those folders?

I see no point in deleting, then recreating the same thing, provided you and Admin appear to be able to read and write the folder in ~/Library , which does appear to be true.

those two items in the main /Library/Audio folder seem to be related to system settings, like overall Volume level and connected hardware. I have them on my Macs as well.

on my Macs, that do not do any substantial audio creation, I do not have ~/Library/Preferences/Audio folder.

I DO have ~/Library/Audio folder , and it has several folders including Plug-ins folder inside.

~/Library/Audio folder has Me: read/write and everyone no access. It might be interesting (and unlikely to cause any damage) to add Admin:read/write as well.

that's perfect.

you have a Bunch of stuff that is certied antiques, and features in MacOS that may be disabled because of them.

Tops on my list is TRIM. you have the VERY obsolete Cindori Trim Enabler package installed and it should go. Once it is gone, turn on TRIM for MacOS third-party devices with the Terminal trimforce command:

sudo trimforce enable

https://www.lifewire.com/enable-trim-for-ssd-in-os-x-yosemite-2260789