Activity Monitor mystery

On Feb 8, 2010, at 15:57 , Hector I Macedo wrote:

> I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it, it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can anyone tell me where is it located?
>
>
> [It should be in /Applications/Utilities, but if you've moved it, you could try clicking and holding on its Dock icon while running, and the choose Options > Show in Finder from the menu that pops up. -Adam]


Mine's in /Applications/Utilities

What happens if you search for it?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Hector I Macedo <hecmactx.rr.com> wrote:
> I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it, it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can anyone tell me where is it located?

Have you tried searching for it with Spotlight (Command-Space)? Select
"Show All", then look for the file called "Activity Monitor.app". When
you highlight it, the directory path will be displayed on the bottom
of the Finder Window.

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David Weintraub
qazwartgmail.com

At 1:57 PM -0800 02/08/2010, Hector I Macedo wrote:
>I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the
>Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it,
>it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can
>anyone tell me where is it located?
>
>[It should be in /Applications/Utilities, but if you've moved it,
>you could try clicking and holding on its Dock icon while running,
>and the choose Options > Show in Finder from the menu that pops up.
>-Adam]

Or use spotlight to find it and then command-click it when it does.
That will open the folder it's in, rather than launching the app.
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tom coradeschi
tcoraasme.org

On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:

> At 1:57 PM -0800 02/08/2010, Hector I Macedo wrote:
>> I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the
>> Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it,
>> it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can
>> anyone tell me where is it located?
>>
>> [It should be in /Applications/Utilities, but if you've moved it,
>> you could try clicking and holding on its Dock icon while running,
>> and the choose Options > Show in Finder from the menu that pops up.
>> -Adam]
>
> Or use spotlight to find it and then command-click it when it does.
> That will open the folder it's in, rather than launching the app.
> --
>
> tom coradeschi
> tcoraasme.org

I couldn't find it on my Mom's computer either, and used all of the
above methods. I went to Help (on the machine), found instructions for
it and there was a click to open button. I didn't then go locate it,
but was able to get it open and use it at least.

Bruce

At 9:56 AM -0800 02/14/2010, Bruce Sherman wrote:
>On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Tom Coradeschi wrote:
>
>>At 1:57 PM -0800 02/08/2010, Hector I Macedo wrote:
>>>I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the
>>>Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it,
>>>it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can
>>>anyone tell me where is it located?
>>>
>>>[It should be in /Applications/Utilities, but if you've moved it,
>>>you could try clicking and holding on its Dock icon while running,
>>>and the choose Options > Show in Finder from the menu that pops up.
>>>-Adam]
>>
>>Or use spotlight to find it and then command-click it when it does.
>>That will open the folder it's in, rather than launching the app.
>
>I couldn't find it on my Mom's computer either, and used all of the
>above methods. I went to Help (on the machine), found instructions for
>it and there was a click to open button. I didn't then go locate it,
>but was able to get it open and use it at least.

Open terminal and type:

find /applications -name 'Activity Monitor*'

and hit return. That will search your applications folder and all
folders in it. On my system, it returns

/applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app

Which tells me that it's in the utilities folder (as one would expect).

If you don't find it there, try the following:

find / -name 'Activity Monitor*'

That will search the hard disk for you, albeit only those folders
which you have permissions to view. You will get a bunch of
"permission denied" warnings, which you can safely ignore. Hopefully
you will find it at that point. If not, try

sudo find / -name 'Activity Monitor*'

You will need to provide your admin password, but it will search the
entire hard disk for you. It's in there somewhere!
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tom coradeschi
tcoraasme.org

On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:00, Tom Coradeschi <tcoraasme.org> wrote:

> find /applications -name 'Activity Monitor*'

Very VERY slow solution

mdfind -name activity

Probably on the order of 1000x faster

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Hector I Macedo wrote:
> I'm using OS 10.6.2 and I can't find Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder or in Applications, BUT if I invoke Finder for it, it shows it in the listing and if I click on it it will open. Can anyone tell me where is it located?

Not sure why no one has suggested this yet -- maybe I missed it -- but
if you can get it to launch, why not just right-click or control-click
on the Dock icon and select "Show in Finder" ?

That should immediately pop open a window showing where in the
filesystem the application is running from, and from which you can
move i back to the /Applications/Utilities folder where it's supposed
to be.

There are other ways to figure them out -- and many are chiming in
with them -- but they're all slower than just having the Dock show you
where it's running from.


--
Chris Devers

At 9:28 AM -0800 02/16/2010, LuKreme wrote:
>On Feb 15, 2010, at 10:00, Tom Coradeschi <tcoraasme.org> wrote:
>
>>find /applications -name 'Activity Monitor*'
>
>Very VERY slow solution
>
>mdfind -name activity
>
>Probably on the order of 1000x faster

Cool
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tom coradeschi
tcoraasme.org