![]() ![]() Today I disabled iCloud entirely, disabled Spotlight 'bing search,' and 'spotlight suggestions,' and disabled Chrome auto updates (but created a desktop shortcut he can run when he's on public wifi). I had him disable wifi and drive to a public wifi hotspot, where I did some remote support via TeamViewer.īefore this morning, I had already set the App Store to never download w/o user action. ![]() This morning while on the phone with me, he enabled wifi and almost immediately nsurlsessiond downloaded ~1gb! Right now the offending process seems to be nsurlsessiond, which is OS X's download management library, used by just about everything, it seems like. ![]() I've advised him to run Activity Monitor and keep an eye on download use. Starting midway through April, the system downloaded several large things without asking first, and he's hit overage charges on his connection - he actually had to turn off his access point entirely for a few days last month, and now that he's turned it back on, he's seeing more unwanted use. I also suggested he try running Chrome, since Firefox was not handling the memory-constrained environment (2gb RAM, which he's now upgraded to 4gb). However, back at Christmas I updated him to OS X 10.10.2. Since I gave it to him in 2012, he's been using it without problems on his metered connection. ![]()
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