I’m working MacOS Large Sur. I put in some apps downloaded on-line. I discovered many apps have been began robotically at startup.
By googling and inspecting my system, I found out they have been began from the file backgrounditems.btm which is positioned at ~/Library/Utility Assist/com.apple.backgroundtaskmanagementagent/. The file shops Login Objects.
By working a python script downloaded on-line, I can see many Login Objects registerd within the file backgrounditems.btm and they’re NOT proven in System Preferences > Customers > myuser > Login Iterms.
I attempted the command osascript -e 'inform software "System Occasions" to delete login merchandise "identify"' to delete the hidden login iterm, however failed with error message “36:73: execution error: System Occasions bought an error: Can’t get login merchandise “myapp.app”. (-1728)”
These hidden login iterms are additionally NOT proven after I use the command osascript -e 'inform software "System Occasions" to get the identify of each login merchandise'.
So my query is tips on how to take away these undesirable login iterms to cease them autostart at my login. Command Line Approach is prefered. I believe some GUI apps corresponding to ccleaner could do the job, however I do not wish to set up some GUI apps which can be autostarted themselves. Mainly, I do not wish to set up an autostart iterm to take away autostart objects.
Thanks quite a bit.
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I found out the file is in a binary plist format.
Then I attempted two instruments.
One is the default cml software plutil. One other one is a thirdy get together software ProperTree. Each can convert and open the binary plist as XML plain plist. However even with a plain plist format, it is kinda laborious to know it. The essential sections are nonetheless coded in base64 format in xml.
I can decode base64 with many instruments, however I nonetheless really feel it is kinda an excessive amount of work for this objective. Do anybody know any simpler option to take away hidden login iterms from the file? Thanks.