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JasonVP Author

Level 1

9 points

What the **** is TCCD?

Hey folks -

I have a fresh install (format, install from thumb drive) of 10.8 on my Mac Pro in the office. I've been having problems with Mail.app, Calendar, and Contacts when I configure them to connect to our internal MS Exchange server. Specifically, they'll sometimes lock up and need to be killed from "Force Quit.." menu.

Digging into it a little further, I see this process running amuck:

camshaft# ps auxww | grep tccd

jvp 3592 99.7 0.0 2500120 2728 ?? R 4:36PM 986:31.32 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/TCC.framework/Resources/tccd

If I kill that process, then each of the aforementioned apps unlock and continue running without a problem.

Any idea what tccd, or the TCC.framework is part of?

jas

Posted on Aug 1, 2012 6:15 AM

17 replies

Jun 3, 2013 1:24 AM in response to JasonVP

I've got a similar problem with TCC. I've got 2 user accounts on my macbook pro. If I

log in with the second user then tccd crashes every second and that makes impossible to use most of the programs (Safari, Contacts, Mail etc)

There is no tccd db created for this user. The com.apple.TCC folder doesn't exist in ~/Library/Application support/

If I open the Console then I see how crash reports are generated. Every second I've got a new tccd crash report.

Any help is appreciated.

matt243

Level 1

9 points

Jan 22, 2014 4:28 AM in response to JasonVP

I had a similar problem in which tccd was consuming a lot of CPU and memory. The underlying problem turned out to be related to broken rules in Hazel. I documented it here:

http://www.dafacto.com/2014/01/22/fixed-stopped-the-tccd-process-in-mac-os-x-mav ericks-from-consuming-cpu-and-memory/

What the **** is TCCD?