now I have the cuckoo sound and cant' delete it

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I&#x27;ve seen through my search that others have been periodically subjected to the cuckoo chime at the top of every hour.  Now it&#x27;s affecting my computer.I have a new iMac that I&#x27;ve had a little over a week.  I used Migration Assistant to import everything except Applications.  I&#x27;ve spent the last week re-installing applications or copying them from my old iMac. On that iMac, I had the Cuckoo pref pane from toasycode.com.  It was enabled, but for some reason it had quit working and I&#x27;d actually forgotten it was installed.  I liked the cuckoo effect, so I downloaded a new copy of the pref pane and installed it.  That&#x27;s when the problem started.  Now I was getting 2 cuckoo sounds every hour.  One was the sound I believe toastcode calls Pure Cuckoo and the other was a much louder sound that toastycode calls Cuckoo Clock.  I had listened to both when I installed Cuckoo and chosen Pure Cuckoo. Two cuckoos every hour quickly became annoying, so I contacted toastycode.  They said to delete the pref pane and restart.  That&#x27;s when I discovered that I had 2 Cuckoo pref panes.  I used AppDelete to delete both of them and did the restart.  Pure cuckoo is gone, but Cuckoo Clock is not.  It&#x27;s louder than any system sounds and therefore really annoying.I&#x27;ved tried everything (I think) that I&#x27;ve seen in previous posts:1) I deleted everything in my user LogIn2) I don&#x27;t have Announce the Time checked in Date &amp; Time prefs3) I don&#x27;t have iClock installed4) I don&#x27;t have any time-keeping or clock-like Widgets5) I don&#x27;t have the Chinese Calendar Widget in my user Library6) I don&#x27;t have the ChronoSync Background Scheduler installedBut I still have a LOUD cuckoo every hour.Please help!

Eric Ross · Accepted Answer

Did you look in the System Preferences to see of there is a special preference pane under Other. Check your console for messages at the top of the hour to get a location of the program.

captfred · Answer

Also check System Preferences &gt;  Date &amp; Time  &gt; clock tab.  If the "announce the time" option is checked, uncheck it.Regards,Captfred

William M. · Answer

Captfred-  See item #2 in my list of what I&#x27;ve tried.

William M. · Answer

Here&#x27;s the Console log from 15 seconds prior to the hour until 15 seconds after the hour, but I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m looking at.  Do you see anything?6/25/11 6:59:43 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:45 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist[711]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error6/25/11 6:59:45 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:45 PM          ReportCrash[703]          Saved crash report for Seagate Storage Gauge[711] version 1.0 (26302) to /Users/bill/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Seagate Storage Gauge_2011-06-25-185945_Bills-new-iMac.crash6/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[712]) posix_spawn("/Library/TechTracker/TTEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/TTEngine", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[713]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):136/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[712]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[713]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[713]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 6:59:48 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:53 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[714]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Memeo/Memeo Backup/Daemons/Memeod", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 6:59:53 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[714]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 6:59:53 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:55 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist[715]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error6/25/11 6:59:55 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:56 PM          ReportCrash[703]          Saved crash report for Seagate Storage Gauge[715] version 1.0 (26302) to /Users/bill/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Seagate Storage Gauge_2011-06-25-185956_Bills-new-iMac.crash6/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[717]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):136/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[716]) posix_spawn("/Library/TechTracker/TTEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/TTEngine", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[717]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[716]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[717]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 6:59:58 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:04 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[718]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Memeo/Memeo Backup/Daemons/Memeod", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 7:00:04 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[718]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 7:00:04 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:06 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist[719]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error6/25/11 7:00:06 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:06 PM          ReportCrash[703]          Saved crash report for Seagate Storage Gauge[719] version 1.0 (26302) to /Users/bill/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Seagate Storage Gauge_2011-06-25-190006_Bills-new-iMac.crash6/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[720]) posix_spawn("/Library/TechTracker/TTEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/TTEngine", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[721]) Bug: launchd_core_logic.c:4139 (24498):136/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine[720]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.cnet.ttengine) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[721]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Akamai/loader.pl", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist[721]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 7:00:08 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.akamai.client.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:14 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[722]) posix_spawn("/Library/Application Support/Memeo/Memeo Backup/Daemons/Memeod", ...): No such file or directory6/25/11 7:00:14 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod[722]) Exited with exit code: 16/25/11 7:00:14 PM          com.apple.launchd[1]          (com.memeo.Memeod) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds6/25/11 7:00:16 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist[723]) Job appears to have crashed: Bus error6/25/11 7:00:16 PM          com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[131]          (com.seagate.SeagateStorageGauge.plist) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

captfred · Answer

Sorry,  read right over that.In that case, check the follow libraries for the program&#x27;s plist.  If found delete or drag to the desktop.~/Library/LaunchAgentsMacintosh HD/Library/LaunchAgentsMacintosh HD/Library/LaunchDaemonsNote: ~  is your home directoryCaptfred

William M. · Answer

Nothing in any of those that remotely resembles Cuckoo or toastycode.

William M. · Answer

Now the sound has changed to something more resembling Pure Cuckoo.  It&#x27;s a different sound!!

X423424X · Answer

Check ~/Library/Sounds (and /Library/Sounds if that exists).  Hopefully you may find the sound and deleting it will stop the hourly chime but of course that won&#x27;t stop whoever is trying to use it.  Of course if you&#x27;re lucky whatever it is might crash and then you&#x27;ll find out what it is!  On the other hand the sound could be inside the app&#x27;s bundle and the mystery remains.If you do a ps ax from the terminal and post that here then maybe we can spot a possible culprit (or maybe you will see a possible culprit).

William M. · Answer

I pasted my Console log here and nobody responded, but the idea put me to work.  There appeared to be several messages related to Memeo and SeagateStorageGauge.  Those are applications that I installed after connecting a new external drive.  I found that neither application did anything useful for me, so I had deleted them.  But, apparently, neither one was completely deleted.  After much digging on the Seagate site, I found deeply buried there the instructions on how to completely delete their software.  They don&#x27;t make doing that easy.  I followed every step and I believe I got all components deleted.I also dug around my HD and deleted all references to Akamai.  I don&#x27;t know what it is or where it came from so that must mean I don&#x27;t need it.After doing these things and some other cleaning of orphan files, the cuckoo stopped.  I&#x27;m not sure what specific action was the solution or maybe it took a combination of those actions.  I remember reading in an earlier thread that the cuckoo sound had sometimes become an error sound that replaced the basso sound for system errors.  Maybe that&#x27;s what happened, but in any case, I&#x27;m glad it&#x27;s over!