http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: In Mac terminal what is "ditto" pid 26940 ? en Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:16:59 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/in-mac-terminal-what-is-ditto-pid-26940-#post-5605 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:30:14 +0000 The Geek 5605@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>ditto is a process that copies files and directories, usually used for cloning your system.</p> <p>I suspect it's part of Time Machine if you are running Leopard, but it could also be some other application that is making a backup. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/in-mac-terminal-what-is-ditto-pid-26940-#post-5603 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:01:41 +0000 thairan 5603@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I checked all open app's on my mac with "top" in terminal. I find that something called "ditto" is using about 90% of my mac's cpu. Any ideas on what this might be? The pid is 26940. </p>