How to uninstall x-tunes pol-online???

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How to uninstall x-tunes pol-online???

My Console showed some strange activities, which made my iMac awake from sleep. After I deleted some apps, it is better now, but still it has X-tunes pol-online ( http://www.pol-online.net/x-tunes) launchd every 10 seconds.
Interesting thing is that I have removed this app long time ago after I tried it. But it seems smth still remained, which causes this activity. It also shows the following:
"(net.pol-online.x-tunes[1195]) posix_spawn("/Library/PreferencePanes/X-Tunes.prefPane/Contents/Resources/X-Tun es Daemon.app/Contents/MacOS/X-Tunes Daemon", ...): No such file or directory
(net.pol-online.x-tunes[1995]) Exited with exit code: 1
(net.pol-online.x-tunes) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds"
And in 10 seconds it goes again and again and again.
I tried to look into all folders to find this X-Tunes or pol-online files - nothing. Tried to see if they have the uninstall on their web site - couldn't find any. This must be another tricky application.
Can anyone help to stop this and throw away all these X-Tunes traces?!

iMac 24", 2.8 Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Mac Book Air 1.6 GHz, Mac OS X 10.6.6, TC, PB G4-10.4.11, APE, iPhone 4 16GB

Posted on Mar 9, 2011 1:58 AM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

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Mar 9, 2011 7:49 AM in response to Asterii

Here's what their Help says:

"Uninstalling X-Tunes:

If you want to uninstall X-Tunes from your system, follow these steps:
• turn X-Tunes OFF for all users,
• drag "X-Tunes.prefpane" from the "PreferencePanes" directory located inside the "Library" directory of your Home (or inside the one in the "Computer" if you installed X-Tunes for all users) to the Trash."

If you still have trouble, you may need to try and contact the project coordinators and see if they can help:

http://code.google.com/p/x-tunes/people/list

Regards.

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Answer 2

Asterii Author

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Mar 9, 2011 9:16 AM in response to varjak paw

Thanks, Dave, but the problem is that I can't find any such files in those folders. I searched a lot before posting this question.
Must be another hidden thing, like it was with MacKeeper demo version, which was also very hard to track to uninstall.
Strangely, Spotlight doesn't show any files with X-tunes, and nor it showed any MacKeeper files, though I found them manually thanks to a very good forum on that issue. And with X-tunes it seems I am the only one with such a problem, as there is almost no records on the web about uninstalling it.
And the Console still tries it every 10 seconds...

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Answer 3

varjak paw

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Mar 9, 2011 10:05 AM in response to Asterii

A long shot, but go to the Accounts system preference and look at the Login Items for your user account. Is X-Tunes shown there, perhaps? If so, remove that entry and see if that quiets that now-irrelevant attempt to launch the daemon.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 4

Asterii Author

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Mar 9, 2011 12:00 PM in response to varjak paw

Nope. Nothing.
Anyway, thanks for your kind assistance.

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Answer 5

tmo256

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Jan 23, 2012 9:18 AM in response to Asterii

On the off chance that you (or anyone) still needs the information, you can disable the daemon by removing its starter file, X-Tunes.plist, from your user's Library/LaunchAgents directory. (Depending on how this was installed and your OS, you may find this file in one or two other places, including /System/Library or /Library or in any of those directories under LaunchDaemons.)

You should also remove the preferences pane that came with it. You can find X-Tunes.prefPan in your user Library/PreferencePanes directory (or, again, depending on installation, in the higher-level system directories as above).

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