Q: Drop down menus changed to numbers
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Join Date: Sep 2003
| I have items in my finder menus that have changed to numbers. Example: cut is ME1, Empty trash is A3. The issue seems to keep expanding to new menu items as well. My sidebar lists my hard drive as SDS, time machine as SD6, and places as SD8. My command click menu has numbers in place of items as well. I keep finding new things changing. What may be causing this problem problem? |
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 7:08 AM
1 is a finder invisible file (all files beginning wit a dot are usually invisible although you can overide that in the finder using something like OnyX or Tinkertool). 5 would be visible if it is there unless it was made finder invisible.
A quick and easy way to remove them and not worry about seeing them is to just delete them using the following terminal command (cut/paste the following line):
rm -rf ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/swlog
You shouldn't see any messages when doing these.
Posted on Oct 6, 2011 2:03 PM