In a recent series of emails, Matthew Hindson and I noted that on a
Mac using Quickeys 3, the Quickeys Background Engine has a memory
leak (or something) and can cause your Mac to slow down enormously.
This usually happens to me after an hour or so of Finale use. I use a
lot of Quickeys macros when I use Finale.
The way to solve it was to open Activity Monitor in the Utilities
folder and quit the Quickeys Background Engine (NOT the Quickeys
application itself). You would get a warning about the tool bar and
palettes not working in Quickeys, but neither of us needs this and
Quickeys continues to work anyway.
I got tired of quitting the Background Engine every time I rebooted
or logged in, so I found a way to get rid of it once and for all.
Instructions:
1) Quit Quickeys.
2) Control-click on the Quickeys application and choose "Show package
contents" from the contextual menu.
3) Open Quickeys: Contents: Resources
4) Trash (or convert to zip for backup safety) the
"QuicKeysBackgroundEngine" file.
5) Close all windows and restart Quickeys. Now you won't even get the
warning dialog boxes!
I hope this doesn't cause anything to blow up on your computer, but
if you are concerned, please direct all email to Matthew in
Australia. He is from the future (at least according to my time zone:
Central Standard Time) and he might be able to warn you in advance!
-Randolph Peters
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