Quit the LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar Item
Aug 02, '11 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: JMoVS
The LogMeIn Hamachi MenuBar item is not quittable. There is an item 'Quit,' but however you try, or even if you stop the process in Activity Monitor, it won't quit. I tested this on 10.6 and 10.7, so problem on both. But enabling quitting is really easy.
The problem is that Hamachi is implemented as a launch agent in Mac OS X. So every time it quits itself or gets quit through Activity Monitor, OS X automatically relaunches it due to how launch agents work. They automatically restart when quit. So the solution is:
- Go to /Library/LaunchAgents. Note: Not your user's library, but the system wide library.
- Find the ...hamachi.plist. There will be some leading qualifiers (hence the ...) but there shouldn't be more than one Hamachi plist in there.
- Save/copy it to a safe place, in case you want to re-enable it later.
- Delete it from the Library.
- Restart the Mac.
Please note that you probably should delete the hamachi-plist in daemons as well.
Also note, that after this hint, it is NOT needed that you run the menubar app before opening Hamachi. Hamachi works absoluetly fine wihtout the menu extra.
[crarko adds: Logmein provides an uninstaller, which removes the menu item as well as the application. As a recall a restart was required after that, although I can't absolutely swear to that.]
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