Dec 17, 2012 Even after setting Little Snitch to deny AAM Updates Notifier, it's still chewing up the processor with incessant reading or writing. Some time ago, for some reason this Mac Pro (2010) suddenly stopped going to sleep through the normal method, so I've had to devolve to pressing the power button to put it to sleep. AAM Updates Notifier stands for Adobe Application Manager Updates Notifier. What this process essentially does is it informs the user (via the system tray) that a new update is available for Adobe Acrobat or a similar program developed by Adobe. AAM Updates Notifier.exe is an executable file that belongs to Adobe Acrobat, a group of software and web services created by Adobe, to create, view, modify and print files in the Portable Document Format (PDF). This process notifies the user through the system tray of available updates.
Even after setting Little Snitch to deny AAM Updates Notifier, it's still chewing up the processor with incessant reading or writing. Some time ago, for some reason this Mac Pro (2010) suddenly stopped going to sleep through the normal method, so I've had to devolve to pressing the power button to put it to sleep.
I try not to put the Mac to sleep in the middle of a read/write, though it's probably not a problem. I just don't like AAM UN! #$@#!
Do I write a shell script? Can I use Python? Using Python I could figure out a script easier. What I did just now is opened Activity Monitor and killed the process. Would I write a script to do that, or is there a more elegant way? (I'm sure there must be!)
Thanks for any help, I'm out of my depth here (obviously),
Greg
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Aam Updates Notifier Is Not Optimized For Your Mac