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Offline ADSR

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« on: September 24, 2011, 12:31:20 AM »
Hi,

Is it normal to have two automount in activity monitor... Thinking.gif
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« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2011, 08:41:51 AM »
I have no idea, but I have several items with duplicate instances. Some have different Users, others are all mine. I don't have any named "automount." If you use the "Inspect" function, you may find that they both have the same Parent process. If that's the case, I'd say it's normal or at least not a problem.
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« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2011, 09:17:05 AM »
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Here it is..;what do you think?

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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2011, 10:33:55 AM »
Are you networking your machines, using one as a Server? If so, from what I've read about automount, that may be normal.

Hopefully, someone smarter than me may be able to shed more light on it.

Chris
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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2011, 11:06:52 AM »
The mac  is connected to a router  to use  dropbox on an other house ...

So maybe that's why...
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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2011, 11:49:51 AM »
I'd say let "root" do what it wants. You don't really have much control over it, anyway. dntknw.gif
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2011, 07:38:23 AM »
From Mac OS X: What are all those processes?

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automount   Automatically mounts and unmounts network (NFS and AFP) file systems as they are accessed / left idle.


Given that you've got two drives linked via Dropbox, that's why you have two processes - one for each. Do you have Dropbox set up as a login item?
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« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2011, 02:31:28 AM »
Yes dropbox is a login item, now i know  a bit more about automount
Interesting link...

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