Disable reportcrash osx using launchctl – disable crash popups

Disable reportcrash osx using launchctl – disable crash popups

Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes!

How to disable reportcrash osx

launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting:


launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ReportCrash.plist
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.ReportCrash.Root.plist
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This Post Has 9 Comments

  2. Omakayd March 17, 2012

    I’ve recently been having problems with “reportcrash” taking up a lot of resources, even when an app hasn’t crashed. This has stopped that from happening.

    Thank you.

  3. Kirill Stytsenko July 8, 2012

    thanks! helped me, same as it helped the other users. :)

  4. Laucha September 25, 2012

    Great tip! same as the others, this process just take a lot of resources without any cause or reason (at sight…). Many thanks!

  6. Devin July 27, 2014

    thank you!!! whenever i go into activity moniter it always says report crash is taking up lots of cpu and this fixes my problem

  7. Jason Potvin May 29, 2015

    would I type this into terminal? I am sorry I am not a programmer.

  8. Dom Millar November 1, 2015

    This is an excellent fix. Has stopped my MacBook from constantly overheating. Thanks so much.

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