Download //TOP\\ Helper 7
Doreen Collicott
It seems that almost every day I get this stupid pop-up on my Macbook and Macmini (Desktop) telling me that I need to enter my password for my computer so that Evernote can do an update and "Add Helper". I have attached a screenshot of what I get. Why do I have to keep Adding the helper? This is really annoying.
There's an old thread on this, but I had to search to learn about it. Had never heard of helper before. The forum has a brief page on it, dated early 2019 but the EN help section on it is undated. What version EN are you running?
In Evernote v10 the Helper is installed alongside the main application. If you are being invited to install the helper on its own then you may be best uninstalling Evernote and then downloading the application from evernote.com and reinstalling which should fix the problem.
As @lost_gweedo notes, the helper changed between the older v7 of Evernote for MacOS and the current release. But I think my advice would be the same except that if you wish to remain with the older software you will have to download what is now called Legacy (search for download old version of evernote).
Evernote Helper (Renderer) instance shows 125% CPU and has 6 out of 12 CPU cores very active, as well as causing the fan to run; closing the EN app or killing that one helper process fixes the CPU $ fan issues (and EN app doesn't seem to be affected by the stopped helper).
I have signed out, uninstalled Evernote completely with uninstall tool, restart mac m1 and install fresh copy downloaded from the site. EN keeps running 150% when inactive and like DBDemiGod suggest killing the EN helper which eat 150% of the CPU seems to have no effect on EN and solves problem. Definitely an EN bug.
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