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There is an "icon" item in my Menu Bar (with a yellow triangle & exclamation mark) that refers to an (?) application named "Snapshot".
I cannot find anything using Spotlight or manual search by the name Snapshot on my MBP.
How can I remove this "thing" from my Menu (and MBP)?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), 8GB SDRAM; 750GB HD
Command-click it and drag it out of the menu bar. If that doesn't work, find and use an uninstaller for the software it's associated with.
(90410)
Command-click it and drag it out of the menu bar. If that doesn't work, find and use an uninstaller for the software it's associated with.
(90410)
Command-click does not work to remove. It just causes the drop-down menu where the name Snapshot etc. appears.
Only software uninstaller I have is Appzapper, but I cannot use that since I cannot find anything (outside Menu Bar) called Snapshot.
-- and I have no idea "for the software it's associated with."
Is there any sort of "about" information in the dropdown from that icon that would give us a clue as to the application or its developer?
go to sys preferences > users and groups or accounts > go to login items for your admin account> you'll more than likely see "snapshot" there.
click on it, it will highlight in blue, hit the ➖ sign near the plus sign to remove.
The only clue I have found is a google search that yielded this url: http://snapshot.en.softonic.com
Developer name is foreign & clickable but does not take me to anything! (literally)
In SysPref>User&Groups>Login Items --> there is NO Snapshot item listed to click on.
In the above url, I clicked Free Download and got a file titled "SoftonicDownloader_for_snapshot.exe"
but am reluctant to open it. Is .exe not a PC document?
I clicked to Open the file and got message that it cannot be opened; it is a PC document.
Download and use Find Any File to search for "snapshot". FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't like system folders, invisible folders and packages. In the search results window you can see where the different files with snapshot in the file name reside and elect to move them to the Trash. You may have to relaunch the Finder via the ➙ Force Quit menu option.
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try looking through your library folder.
finder > go > hold alt > go to library
look specifically in:
launchagents
caches
preferences
application support
after that go into your mac hd library and look in:
application support
caches
launch agents
launch daemons
preferences
remove anything dealing with that application snapshot, if you find it.
after you remove them into the trash, empty, restart machine, see if it's still up there.
An exe file is indeed a Windows applcation so that can't be the one. Can you take a screenshot of the dropdown menu and post it here? That might give someone a clue as to what you have.
pwwwayne wrote:
Command-click does not work to remove. It just causes the drop-down menu where the name Snapshot etc. appears.
Not all menu bar items are technically the same. The ones you can't Command-drag off are a different type that are more like applications. They usually have a menu with a Quit command on it.
If there is no Quit command, you can quit it from Activity Monitor if you know its name. If you don't know its name, drop its menu and look for an About command. If it doesn't have a Quit or About command and can't be Command-dragged off, it is an unusual menu item.
wow, found 466 matches!! and do not see how to filter.
I tried Open Snapshot and then went to Activity Monitor but did not find a listing to Quit for Snapshot
Here is a screenshot of the drop-down menu of this thing:
My friend, right at the bottom it tells you what the application is: Little Snitch.
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
"Open Snapshot" doesn't mean to open an applcation, it means to open a snapshot of what's accessing your network at the time, which is what Little Snitch is for.
Regards.
Message was edited by: varjak paw
I went into the Library files and looked under all categories you list but still did not spot anything resembling Snapshot. (I did not find a Lauchdaemons folder under my HD Libary)
How to remove item from Menu bar?
