Oh, and by NO MEANS is my current setup 100%!!!!! I have the following errors.ġ) Clients showing as "inactive" are actually "active"Ģ) Clients showing as "active" are actually "inactive"ģ) Scheduled tasks would FAIL, showing "not authorized" BUT if I submit the same command manually, it works ***?Ĥ) I would make a "New List", edit the name and it would revert back to the default name.ĥ) My icons in the toolbar would disappear only to reappear ONLY if I quit and relaunchĦ) I find it VERY ANNOYING when selecting active clients to submit a UNIX command only to have my selection negated by one of my scheduled tasks running.ħ) After "Controlling" a client, my ARD master list would then show that same client as inactive, no longer able to receive UNIX commands.
Until Apple gets the message that ARD NEEDS A COMPLETE REWRITE and NOT A SIMPLE ".1 update", we'll have to settle for a sub-standard product.
Therefore, my advice would be to NOT install OS 10.9, keep your Mac at 10.8 and update no further than ARD 3.6.1. At this moment, it's running and I was even able to make a Time Machine backup. FINALLY, I erased the HD AGAIN, installed OS 10.7 again and ARD 3.6.1. ARD become so corrupted, that it wouldn't even launch. I THEN took another iMac, installed 10.7 and ARD but only to 3.6.1 and it worked. COMPLETELY USELESS and a waste of my time. I ended up taking another iMac, running 10.7 and installing ARD, updating it to 3.7. My clients only showed up 1/3 of the time, my existing clients in my list would actually appear then disappear (flashing on and off) and forget about any scheduled tasks pre-defined. Even though your account probably has admin privileges, turning these off (system prefs -> users and groups -> "allow user to administer this computer" checkbox), rebooting, enabling the checkbox again, starting ARD (enter password, taskserver settings) and then rebooting again fixed it for me.ĮDIT: If your account is the only admin account on the computer, make sure to create a temporary admin account or enable root, or you'll be in trouble!įrom my own experience ("torture" more like), what functionality I did have with ARD 3.6.1 running on my 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 iMac running OS 10.8, it totally and completely FAILED with both updates. This is an issue encountered normally when you're trying to setup ARD under a standard user account. So, I just tried the same steps as you on my iMac, and got the exact same issues as you described above. I don't want to create a new user to use for ARD, so what can I do to strip it bare and start again?ĪRD 3.7 has been plaguing us with issues at work ever since we got it, so naturally I tried the uninstall guide as well, but ended up completely missing the 'Containers' folder, and ended up deleting my entire ~/Library in rage. However, now every time I open ARD, it goes through the setup process again and all the settings and database changes I made in the last session is lost. Everything running smoothly, just having to r ebuild my computer lists etc.
It seemed to be succesful, as I re-opened ARD to find it wanted me to set it up again.
I used spotlight to find that the files were located inside "Containers". I realised that the terminal could not find any of the files in ~ However, after executing each command, Remote Desktop re-opened with the same database / settings and problems.
The software worked fine logged in as another user, so I followed these instructions to uninstall ARD and start again: My laptop fans will spin up, CPU usage increased, etc, and I would have to keep force quitting and re-opening ARD every few minutes and do as much as I could for the few seconds that it ran OK.
Since updating to Mavericks and ARD 3.7, the software had been running extremely slow.