system preferences opens on login

every time i login to my machine, system preferences opens to the hazel menu. i can't for the life of me figure out why this happens. any ideas?

What version of Hazel are you running now and do you recall ever running an older version (like the 1.x series)?

If you look in your Library/LaunchAgents folder, do you see any files starting with "com.noodlesoft"? If so, I would remove those and then logout and back in.

Also, double-check your Login Items. You can view them in the Accounts->Login Items pane of System Preferences. HazelHelper should be the only Hazel related thing in there.

Let me know what you find.

that seemed to fix it. i'm running the most current version of hazel, but i think i did run a demo a while back.

The same thing happens to me; every time I log in, System Preferences opens and displays the Hazel preference pane.

I've checked the LaunchAgents folder and my LoginItems, and they don't have any entries as you describe. I might have run Hazel 1.x a long time ago, but I don't recall for sure.

Can you try the following on the command-line?

Code: Select all: launchctl list

See if any of the entries in the output start with com.noodlesoft.

Here you go:

Code: Select all: $ launchctl list | grep noodlesoft 600 - com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper - 0 com.noodlesoft.Hazel.hazelfolderwatch-trash

It appears you have the old launchd jobs that were used in the Hazel 1 days. The odd thing is that you say there are no entries in LaunchAgents. Try spotlight and see if you find files called com.noodlesoft.HazelHelper.plist and com.noodlesoft.Hazel.hazelfolderwatch-trash.plist and remove those.

Log out and then back in and see if that resets things.