Associate System Events.app

So I upgraded my Macbook to Snow Leopard recently, and after starting it back up for the first time after install, I was greeted with a dialog to locate the System Events app. After some googling, it appears that this is caused when there are applescript applications included in the login items.
I didn't know what was up, so I just clicked the cancel button, and haven't seen the dialog since. Although now it appears that the couple of trivially simple applescript applications I've written will no longer quit, they have to be Force Quit. This is annoying at best. Is there any way to get this dialog to come back up so that I can correctly identify the System Events app? Anyone have any more information on this issue? Thanks!

Well, turns out the system events.app wasn't the issue with my applescripts (it never IS Apple's fault, is it...). Fixed those, everything seems to be working fine. I still haven't figured out if there's anything I need to do now to help OS X out with that issue, but I'm guessing not? I'd assume that it's found/associated the file after start-up and should no longer be an issue.

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I've just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Installation seemed to go OK but on rebooting it is asking where the System Events app is. What is it and where is it located?

I've just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. The installation seemed to go OK but on rebooting it is asking where the System Events app is. What is it and where is it located?
Thanks

If the dialogue appeared once, and you cancelled once, the dialogue may reappear when you next log in. For more certainty I suggest a restart of the operating system, then a log in.
If you like: immediately after the problem is worked around, open the Console utility to see whether — amongst its view of all messages — there is an obvious sign of what caused the dialogue to appear. (If you see nothing obvious, don't waste too much time looking.)

System Events.app requested - Snow Leopard

Hello,
After upgrading my OS to Snow Leopard, the system asked for a file "System Events.app". I clicked on "cancel" option, as I did not find the file on my MacBook (System/Library/CoreService/System Events.app), and the installation ended correctly !!!
Is this file important?
Shall I need to install this file ?
How to install this file, after the Snow Leopard upgrade ?
Shall I run a new installation ?
Is there a patch to install this file ?
Appreciate any help on this issue
Note : It seems that my OS Snow Leopard is working correctly for the moment on my MacBook
Best Regards
and many thanks in advance for your help and support

I had the same issue... Resolution? It's in System/Library/CoreServices
The consensus from other forums is that it is related to applescripts that run at startup. Not sure why the system can't locate it since it's a "Core Service", though.

Help "Where is System Events.app?"

ok i did a cache cleaning with the itool, after restart my computer a mesage apear, a window of Choose Application pop up with thise, "Where is System Events.app?" after that the list of app's in my computer to choose, what should i do? and what is System Events?

It's located in /System/Library/CoreServices/. However, there's no reason that alert should appear. I suggest doing two things. First,
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
Second, is to restart the computer.

System Events keeps crashing

First of all, forgive me if there is a more appropriate category for this to be posted in. I couldn't think of anything better suited to this exact issue.
On every boot, OS X brings up a standard "Application quit unexpectedly" dialogue for System Events. I can simply close this and disregard it, and it does not affect operation in any way.
However, just recently I have found that when I attempt to launch Adium, the open-source IM client, it hangs for a good deal of time and then brings up the same dialogue. Adium, in the end, is unable to start and must be forcefully terminated.
I was wondering if there might be any relation between the two occurrences. I do not know exactly what System Events is responsible for, and if someone could enlighten me, perhaps I could go about fixing the annoyance at startup, and possibly the problem with Adium at the same time.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, another note: both problems started very recently, at least one of them around the time I updated to 10.4.11.

You can certainly remove System Events from Login Items, and I suggest you do. It serves no useful purpose by being launched independently in that way. It will be 'called' (transparently) by an AppleScript (or something similar) as and when needed. The time penalty for it not already running will be indiscernible.
However, sorry to tell you, but removing it as a login item is unlikely to make a scrap of difference to anything. Having System Events made to run in that way is unnecessary but should not be harmful in any way: it just runs consuming no CPU, only being used when 'called' by an app, and it is the app that is doing the calling that I would suspect. Did you also check /Library/StartupItems?
There is the remote (very remote) possibility that System Events.app itself is corrupted. You can easily check that. Launch Script Editor (in /Applications/AppleScript), paste this line:
tell app "System Events" to say "Hello Benjamin"
Hit <Enter>. The line should format (the text will change its appearance) without error; then hit the 'Run' button. If, as I expect, that causes no error, you are condemned to carry on playing "hunt the app".
Does the error message appear when you log into another account? (Create a temporary account if needed, and then delete it).

Start-Up Problem: "Where is System Events?"

My MacBook Pro recently had leopard unexpectedly quit. It happened about two days ago, and I reset the computer as the notification instructed. No problems once that was done, it was back to business as usual. However, leopard just crashed again today, and now, when I start up the computer I receive a prompt that asks "Where is System Events?" and waits for me to choose an application. The items on my desktop seem to be partially loading, with some looking fine, others seemingly unrecognized. What can I do to fix this, and how should that prompt be handled?
Thanks in advance for all your help!

Well, with a tip off from another help post, I searched around my Mac for an app of the system events name. Spotlight showed nothing, but under Mac HD > System > Library > CoreServices I found one. So, I pointed the prompt to this file, System Events.app. It did nothing immediate, but upon restarting, everything seems to be back to normal. I suppose the crash somehow disturbed the system's set path for using this file, but after my manual redirection of it, the prompt has not returned, and no further problems have occurred. Sorry to have taken up space on the board when I solved it myself. Hopefully anyone with similar problems might find this note helpful.

Open file With System Events

i have a backup and sychronizing program called Synk that is currently unscriptable. I want to set up folder action so that when i plug various drives in this program opens the correct backup files and the program.
So far i have managed to get the program to open and i have managed to get the open dialog box up, i have also managed to get it to click the right button to start the process. Where this fails is when selecting the correct backup file. The open dialog box appears and i can see which one i want it to select, but i am unsure of how i get system events to select a specified item from the open dialog box. It also fails to initalize when the drive is inserted.
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
if (added_items as string) contains "Humphrey" then
--set bup to file "Humphrey To University.sknd" of folder "Backup documents" of folder "documents" of "home"
tell application "Synk"
activate
tell application "System Events"
key code 31 using {command down}
-- open bup
-- (click the radio button "Open" of window) open
tell process "Synk"
click the button "Run" of the front window
end tell
end tell
end tell
end if
end adding folder items to
Rich

Richard,
Does this help:
tell app "Finder" to open file "Humphrey To University.sknd" of folder "Backup documents" of folder "documents" of "home"
It should open Synk for you with the target settings file.
Reese

Continuous "36888 Schannel Errors" in System Event Log when NOT connected to Internet

We are hoping someone will be able to assist with us this very strange issue please ?
We are using Windows 8.1 x64 Enterprise with Office 2013 and the latest Symantec Endpoint Proctecion v12.1.5 installed. They are managed using SCCM2012 in a large AD domain environment
When our workstations are NOT connected to the internet (only local intranet) the following errors appear in SYSTEM event log almost continuously (several times a minute).
Event ID:36888 User: SYSTEM OpCode:Info Level:Error Source:SChannel
"A fatal alert was generated and sent to the remote endpoint. This may result in termination of the connection. The TLS protocol defined fatal error code is 70. The Windows Schannel error state is 11."
The process associated with these events is "Local Security Authority Process"
When an internet connection is enabled for these machines these 36888 errors will suddenly stop !.
An event "Error 36887 "A fatal alert was received from the remote endpoint. The TLS protocol defined fatal alert code is 40." Is also occurring on these machines but only occasionally.
As a result, We suspect there must be a process continuously attempting to connect to an internet service and failing ?.
Some of the things we have tried so far;
- We have disabled all non-essential services (e.g. Windows Store Service) one by one but this didn't fix.
- We have tried disabling Tile updates on Start
- We have tried a bunch of different Group Policy settings to disable different combinations of TLS/SSL in IE config.
- We have searched the internet forums and tried some suggested fixes but this combination of error state and error code seems unique ?.
It doesn't happen on our Windows 7 x64 workstations that have much same apps & configuration.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated !
Thanks.

Hi Makes006,
This Event ID 36888 occurs if a user tries to access a web site using HTTP but specifies an SSL port in the URL.
We can try clean boot to troubleshoot whether this issue is caused by a third party program .
How to perform a clean boot in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
If there is no sensible impacts on operating the machines ,we can try to disable this log by modify the following registry key value to 0.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\EventLogging
For more information, please refer to the following link:
How to enable Schannel event logging in IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260729
Regards,
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How to get name or unix id of last switched System Events process?

Hello
I am writing a script to be used as an idle function to send a command to a process as soon as it's not frontmost anymore. So far, I can figure how to get the unix id or name of the frontmost process, but not of the previous process . Here is what I have:
on idle {}
my handleProcesses()
return 5 --- '5' tells idle () to run every 5 seconds.
end idle
on handleProcesses()
tell application "System Events"
set FrontApp to (get name of every process whose frontmost is true)
set PrevApp to (get name of previous process)
end tell
--- my command here, like tell PrevApp to hide...
end handleProcesses
My problem is that "previous process" is not in the System Events dictionary. I cannot use "frontmost if false" either, because this would return all other opened applications, not just the previous one.
I know one partial solution would be to use Command-Tab, get the name of frontmost, and use Command-tab again. But, it's not really pratical nor elegant.
What I need is a function which can get my frontmost process name (which is easy), and return it when the process is inactive (no more frontmost).
Thanks.
Vic

You can do what you want if you maintain a record yourself of what used to be frontmost:
tell application "System Events"
set FrontApp to (get name of every process whose frontmost is true)
set lastFrontApp to FrontApp
repeat while FrontApp = lastFrontApp
set FrontApp to (get name of every process whose frontmost is true)
end repeat
set BackApps to (get name of every process whose frontmost is not true)
if lastFrontApp is in BackApps then
--the app is open in the background
else
--the app was closed
end if
end tell

System Events and Coreservicesd takes up all CPU at startup

Every time I boot up my laptop System Events and coreservicesd take up to 85% of my CPU. It takes about 10 minutes for it to finally go away and it makes my fans blare. If I'm in a public place I force quit system events which makes them both go away. What in the world causes this and how can I fix it?

I'm having this same problem. It is related to Growl, and perhaps a recent update of Growl to 1.1.3. I'm trying to figure out a way to fix this without uninstalling Growl, since I find this app very useful.

Testing system events (shutdown/restart)

Is anyone aware of a way to determine what event was sent to loginwindow to cause a system shutdown.. Im basically looking for a way to test for the events of kAELogOut
kAEShowRestartDialog
kAEShowShutdownDialog
kAERestart
kAEShutDown
as documented in http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Artic les/BootProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002130-114618-BAJGBJHI
thanks

You need to implement applicationShouldTerminate and the documentation is pretty explicit that your app doesn't get told who's asking it to quit but I'll assume you're up to speed on all that.
You would need to poll AppleEvent or the loginwindow process or come up with some other way of determining who's asking you. I've seen this solution - it isn't pretty but it's the kind of thing you'd need to think about doing.
http://myztik.katan.com/?p=176
I'm not aware of a way to use BSD level kqueue to get System event calls but that doesn't mean there isn't one. Even if it is possible it means your App would need to constantly deal with notifications you don't care about. Also keep in mind your applicationShouldTerminate will get called for every quit so there won't always be a Systemwide notification... it could just be the Application's Quit command.
HTH,
=Tod

System Events startup problem

Recently I noticed my Macbooks fans where spinning all the time for no apparent reason.
Upon further investigation I found out every single time I reboot my Macbook an application titled "System Events" will use up 50-60% of my CPU (continuously) until I force quit it from within the Activity Monitor and after this it will happily idle at around 3% presumably doing what ever task it does.
I didn’t want to outright delete the application as I have no idea what it does and its also inside a folder labeled "Core Services", seemed like an area to tread carefully within.
At least I have found a relatively simple work around but I was wondering if there is anyway to stop this happening all together?
So far I've tried to disable each application that is being loaded on startup one at time to see if its any of them, Ive also tried adding and deleting the offending System Events application from the startup applications.
Ive had no luck so far so any help will be much appreciated, if you need any further information on my Macbook I will be more than happy to provide it.
Thanks for reading.
EDIT: Ive also tried leaving the Macbook running while I was at work for around 6 hours, when I came home System Events was still at 60%, the logic behind doing this was to see if it was doing some sort of task system wide and I wasn’t giving it enough time to execute.
Also these are the current applications running on startup.
Quote:
Ruby:~ Juo$ defaults read loginwindow | grep Path
Path = "/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app";
Path = "/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app" ;
Path = "/Applications/Quicksilver.app";
Path = "/Users/juo/Library/PreferencePanes/SynergyKM.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Syner gyd.app";
Path = "/Applications/Colloquy.app";
Path = "/Applications/Google Notifier.app";
Path = "/Users/juo/Library/PreferencePanes/BusySync.prefPane/Contents/Resources/BusySy nc.app";
Path = "/Volumes/Juo";
Path = "/Applications/Adium.app";
Path = "/Applications/Twitterrific.app";
Path = "/Users/juo/Library/PreferencePanes/GrabUp.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrabUpDa emon.app";
Path = "/Users/juo/Library/PreferencePanes/GeekTool.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GeekTo ol.app";
Path = "/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlMenu.app";
Finally I am running Leopard 10.5.2 and have all the latest updates available within "Software Update"

Welcome to the forums!
"System Events" is widely used by AppleScript and by apps using AppleScript. Do NOT touch the app itself. You can certainly remove it from Login Items without making a scrap of difference - it will simply take a fraction of a second longer for the calling app to use it.
IMO, you are going about things the right way. I am, in fact, surprised that one of those items you list is not the culprit. The culprit is most likely to be something in your Login Items or in /Library/StartupItems. You can ascertain which by logging into another, clean, account - create a temporary one if you don't have one. That will immediately tell you if the problem is limited to your account or is global.
Tell us whether the problem is global or not, and that there is no doubt that you have exonerated the above items, and one of us will tell you where to look next.

Snow Leopard upgrade "where is system events" message on first boot

I just upgraded Mac OS 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard via retail DVD on my mid-2007 MacBook Pro (just upgrade, not Erase and Install). The install succeeded and the machine rebooted....Setup Assistant started and I got a pop-up window with "Choose Application" in the header and the message "Where is System Events" and the bottom pane showing the list of applications on the machine and the options to Browse, Cancel or Choose...
What does this message refer to?
What should I do?

nobody seems to know for sure why this messages comes up for some people after upgrade. some 3rd party app you have is doing it.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090828102610398
it's ok to hit cancel but it's also ok to select 'system events" which is located in /system/library/coreservices". also check your login items. if system events is there remove it from login items.

System Events got an error: Can't get current configuration of service?

I'm trying to connect/disconnect services through apple script, here is the error I'm getting for "Ethernet" "AirPort" (these services are configured in services tab)
I am able to manualy On/Off these services without supplying admin password, therefore it might not be privilages issue.
*Error message:*
*System Events got an error: Can’t get current configuration of service id "099F7D16-4F3A-4D49-9111-A4DF0A645378" of network preferences.*
Scipt used:
tell application "System Events"
tell network preferences
tell current location
get the name of every service
set myService to service "AirPort"
if exists myService then
--get service properties of myService
set isConnected to connected of current configuration of myService
if isConnected then
disconnect myService
repeat while (get connected of current configuration of myService)
delay 1
end repeat
end if
connect myService
end if
end tell
end tell
end tell

Hi Damian and welcome to Apple Discussions!
One suggestion: try
tell application "Finder" to open item 1 of docs
(without 'using "Corel Painter 8"')
As far as the Finder is concerned, "Corel Painter 8" is just a string of characters. And telling the Finder to open a file is just the same as double-clicking it: the Finder knows which app to use - as long as these are native Corel Painter 8 docs.
Hope this helps,
H

Applescript: system events keystroke to background?

Is there a way to make system events send a keystroke to an application that is in the background (already running no need for activation) without bringing it to the foreground?
i've looked in several places and can't find a way to do this.

Sending keystrokes is just imitating what a user can do/does on the keyboard. You can no more send a keystroke to an app via System Events that isn't the front and active application than you can type text into a window that is in the background.
The only way to deal with apps that aren't active is to script them directly. If they're not applescript-able, consider whether you can do it with a bash or python script instead.

Associate System Events.app

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