batguebi01: Quit the LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar Item

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Quit the LogMeIn Hamachi Menubar Item

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 ...