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A while back I installed Mozy backup client for Mac. It was very soon after they released a Mac client, and at the time, the service wasn’t for me. I downgraded to a free account (to which I actually got a very polite, interesting and helpful email form their support staff) and deleted the app. I thought no more of it until today. My iMac has been getting slower and slower for a while now. Recently, since I bought my super-fast MacBook Pro, it has been really frustrating me, and today when I was trying to work and it would take 20 seconds or more to switch between apps, I was ready to chuck it out the window. So I fired up Activity Monitor (something I should have done a long time ago, but I’m perhaps not the most proficient Mac user when it comes to troubleshooting things like this) and tried to decipher what it was telling me. The bottom line is that a process called ‘MozyBackup’ was using 30-50% of my CPU at all times. A quick Spotlight search for ‘mozy’ yielded a folder in Library/Application Support called Mozy. Deleting that folder seems to have killed off the process, and my iMac is instantly a lot faster. I just thought I would post this as a warning to anyone else in a similar position.

Yes, I know I should have paid more attention to deleting the app properly in the first place. But it is easily done.