Couldn’t figure out why my Mac was being so sluggish, and noticed my iStat Menus showing high processor usage digging further showed it was the galileod process. Well, it won’t be the first time that a support rep told me something, um, untrue…įound this article after doing a search on galileod. This is surprising, because galileod is part of the Fitbit software installer: If after following the above steps to uninstall you are not able to do it, or you still see an issue with Galileod we recommend to contact your Apple manufacturer for further assistance. We would like you to try uninstalling your Fitbit connect using the steps on the following link: The Fitbit software doesn’t use Galileod to run on your computer. Please be aware that Galileod is a patch that Apple has launched to fix a bug on the previous OS X. Update: After contacting Fitbit Support, I received an email saying the following: You will need to manually remove /usr/local/bin/Fitbitd and /Library/Launch Daemons/. Note that the Fitbit software uninstaller does not uninstall all the software. I’ve contacted Fitbit support to see if they can resolve this, but if you have a Fitbit, and you’re Mac’s running slow, have a look in Activity Monitor (this is in your /Applications/Utilities folder) and see if that process is slowing you down. It seems that the only solution is to uninstall the software, using the uninstaller on the Fitbit Connect’s disk image. This process, galileod, is part of the Fitbit Connect software. I spotted a process using from 50-100% of one core’s CPU time. I’ve noticed since then that, at times, my Mac lags a bit when I’m typing. When I got my 5K iMac the other day, the dongle wasn’t recognized, so I re-installed the software. I have a Fitbit One, and I use their Fitbit Connect software on my Mac so the device can sync silently using a USB dongle.

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