Q: I have an app called 'bin' It just won't go away. Every time I 'shut down' . The app 'bin' needs to be 'force quit'.

My earlier guess looks correct. You have installed a piece of software 'addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition', which is apparently intend to synchronise address books between different Macs. My guess is you've had it quite a while. Do you still need it?

C.

I am ready to destroy 'addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition', I have been ready for a while.

The developer's website seems to have disappeared and, unfortunately, the files it seems to have installed:

     /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

and this directory:

     /usr/share/addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition/

are protected by 'System Integrity Protection' so deleting them is a bit of a hassle. I suggest you just disable the launchdaemon by unloading it.

Make sure your backups are up to date then use Terminal.app and execute this command

     sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

then restart your Mac.

C.

Note that:

    sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

is supposed to be a single line but the forum software seems determined to wrap it..

C.

You typed return before you typed the password. Just type the password at the prompt.

C.

You didn't need to repeat your password. (The unix convention is that successful commands are silent.)

You'll notice the first time you unloaded the daemon the command worked silently. The second time you got an error message because it was already unloaded.

I'm busy for a few hours. Next, we need to make sure the thing stays unloaded after a reboot.

C.

Right, back again...

Make sure your backup(s) are up to date before proceeding.

These commands will unload the daemon, delete the file that seems to be starting it, then list the contents of the directory that seems to contain the annoying 'bin' executable:

     sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

     cd /Library/LaunchDaemons/

     sudo rm com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

     cd /usr/share/

     ls -l

Type them carefully and then copy and paste the Terminal output here.

C.

p.s. as before the 'sudo launchctl unload ...' command is all one line.

1. Copy and paste this (it's a single line) at the Terminal prompt:

     sudo launchctl unload -F /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

then type the 'return' key and enter your password at the request.

2.  Copy and paste this at the Terminal prompt:

     cd /Library/LaunchDaemons/

then type the 'return' key.

3.  Copy and paste this at the Terminal prompt:

     sudo rm com.addressBookServer.enterprise.xml

then type the 'return' key and enter your password if it is requested, but it probably won't be.

4.  Copy and paste this at the Terminal prompt:

     cd /usr/share/

then type the 'return' key.

5.  Copy and paste this at the Terminal prompt:

     ls -l

then type the 'return' key.

6. Report back what happened.

C.

So far so good. Let's continue. Now you've go the hang of putting the commands into the terminal one line at a time, use these commands one at a time in sequence to remove addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition:

     cd /usr/share/

     sudo chown -R declanogallagher addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition

     ls -l address*

     rm -r addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition

     ls -l address*

and report back.

C.

First line looks okay, but something went wrong with this one

     rm -r addressBookServerEnterpriseEdition

which needs to be entered as a single line then press return. The prompt will then appear. Then type:

          ls -l

followed by return.

C.