Retrospect engine prevents restart or shutdown

[amkassir]

At least half the time, when I want to restart or shut down my Mac, the process takes forever because the Retrospect engine is not quitting. When in verbose mode I see the process com.retrospect.retroengine is still running; "PID is still valid." After 10 minutes, the system automatically kills the Retrospect engine and the restart or shut down proceeds normally. If I use the system preferences pane and quit the Retrospect engine before restarting or shutting down, this problem is avoided.

 

If I remember correctly, the following text is repeated over and over for most of the 10 minutes, filling up my entire screen:

 

com.apple.launchd System: Still alive with 1/1 (normal/anonymous) children.

com.retrospect.retroengine 63 PID is still valid

com.apple.launchd System: Still alive with 1/1 (normal/anonymous) children.

com.retrospect.retroengine 63 PID is still valid

com.apple.launchd System: Still alive with 1/1 (normal/anonymous) children.

com.retrospect.retroengine 63 PID is still valid

 

etc.

 

I suspect this tends to occur if I just did a backup of my boot drive using Retrospect, but I'm not sure about this.

 

I'm running Retrospect version 11.5.0, but the same thing used to occur with the previous version. Mavericks 10.9.4. IMac (early 2009). Backing up to an external FireWire drive.

 

I'd really like to hear if there's some way of avoiding this, because I hate waiting 10 minutes to restart just because I forgot to shutdown the Retrospecf engine.

 

Thanks.