All of my Mac Mozy Pro installations have started to freak out. I contacted Mozy support, and it turns out this is a known bug with Moxy Pro 1.6.0. The newest update to 1.6.2 fixes the following problem:

Symptoms:

1.) Mozy Fails to Launch at Start - Under System Preferences -> Account -> Login Items, for all of the users the Mozy Status item is set to launch, but the item is marked as “unknown” rather than “application”. Also Mozy Status does not appear in the Activity Monitor after startup.

2.) Mozy Becomes Hyperactive – About once a minute a “Mozy has finished backing up” window appears. However, no files have been backed up.

The Cure:

  1. Force quit Mozy – you may need to do this via the Activity Monitor (Applications -> Utilities -> Activity Monitor)
  2. Remove Mozy from your startup items (System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items)
  3. Uninstall Mozy (drag and drop Mozy from the Applications folder to the trash can and recycle it)
  4. Restart computer
  5. Install Mozy 1.6.2
  6. Restart computer (because you didn’t remove the Mozy preferences file, you will not need to re-enter your account information)

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