Stop Facetime loading at startup

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the help and am now all sorted and am not afraid to admit that as in most cases it's just a case of being new to Mac and completely duh !!

First .. my name was not in the Finder Sidebar .. so, after some research, went to top left corner next to the apple logo to 'Finder' then 'Preferences' 'Sidebar' and ticked my name to add it. Of course I'm not saying all this for your benefit but for the next duh bloke like me who comes along.

So, once I'm in there I can follow your trail and delete the files in library. Unfortunately, just like tplen 1 above it didn't help :-(

However.. good news.. all is now fixed .. how.. just examine how duh I think I am and study. Open Facetime.. go back up to the top left next to the little apple logo and click on 'Facetime' and then .. wait for it ... yes.. 'turn off facetime' :-) done.. as easy as that..

Hope this help some other newbie in time to come and hope you will help me in time to come.

Cheers.

Try this step.

1. Open the Apple Menu. . ...
2. Click on System Preferences….
3. Click on Users & Groups. It's near the bottom of the dialog box.
4. Click on the Login Items tab.
5. Click on the application (facetime) you want to stop from opening at startup. ...
6. Click on _ beneath the applications list.

Hope this can help you.

I don't want FaceTime at all; just messages on my MacBook Pro 2014 mid I don't like seeing myself online and I don't to feel like I am in the Jetson's TV show on a video prompter. Messages are less distracting. Why do they come together as a combo? Sometimes it feels like Apple and Google are always forcing things on us...choices we want choices we are free!

I don't have Facetime running, have you tried to turn it off in Facetime /Prefences?

It is perhaps not on my system due to me never signing in, can you sign out and see if that cures it.

The reason I said turn it off is this is in my preferences.

Hi Matt,

I appreciate what you are saying but the fact is Facetime does not start on my computer when I boot up, so it is not something intrinsic in 10.9.2. It must be some setting on your computer.

Looking around the help sites there have been instances were removing the plist file for Facetime has cured this problem, you could try that, it will make a new plist when/if you start it up.

About the other suggestion, are you logged into Facetime or like me you don't use it and it just keep starting up at boot time?

I also have had this problem since updating earlier today.

Trying to sort it out but not sure how!

Have you actually looked in the FaceTime menu?

Hi Math,

Did you try removing the plist file?

/Users/[your account]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.facetime.plist

After removing it, reboot.

It might also be worth checking to see if the same issue happens in another OS X user account. It could be useful for isolation.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

You might need to redo the View settings after an update.