File Sharing will not save changes on reboot.

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File Sharing will not save changes on reboot.

I can set file sharing as needed for my group, but the file sharing goes away after I reboot. All my other preferences stay the same. This started after I tried an "update" which bricked my iMac, and removed my user permissions to do ANYTHING including seeing my own files.

I restored from Time Machine, and got everything back, except it deleted the old user, added it back and duplicated all the files as MyID1.

Pretty much everything now works, EXCEPT file share.

In addition, there is a file share link to a UserFolder for another user. That user has NEVER been on this computer, and neither has the folder that the share has saved.

How do I fix this?

NEVER UPDATING AGAIN.

iMac 27″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jan 30, 2024 10:34 AM

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Answer 1

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BDAqua

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Jan 30, 2024 4:45 PM in response to EllenBEX

Quit Sys Prefs & trash these 2 files...

~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.systempreferences.savedState/windows.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

~ tilde indicates your user library folder

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...

Method 1:

From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.
In the window that opens, enter ~/Library, and click Go.

Or…

Use the Command-Shift-. toggle in Finder to show or to hide hidden files and folders

Restart

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BDAqua

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Feb 1, 2024 4:21 PM in response to EllenBEX

How about...

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer.plist

Or checking...

/Library/Logs/AppleFileService/AppleFileServiceAccess.log

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BDAqua

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Feb 1, 2024 8:29 PM in response to EllenBEX

What OS are you running?

Those files are there even in the latest version... Sonoma

Might consider reinstalling the OS, or possibly move he recovered one & restart?

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EllenBEX Author

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Feb 1, 2024 4:42 PM in response to BDAqua

This poor Mac is so messed up:

AppleFileServer.plist is not in any of the 3 user libraries, but there are 2 copies in the recovered items and 1 in the HD/Library/Preferences/ - all about 4 years old

Same for the .log file.

With that date, those were files that came over from my prior computer BigApple (a 2009 iMac) when I migrated to my "new" 2017 iMac.

Should I just get rid of the ones in the Recovered files?

Should I just delete all of the old ones?

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EllenBEX Author

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Feb 1, 2024 3:31 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for the pointers...

I liberate my Library on all my Macs during setup.

BUT, my USER/Library/Saved Application State did not have a com.Apple.systempreferences of any sort. None of the Saved Application State folders (~30 of them) had com.Apple.systempreferences. I could not find that file on the computer.

I did find and delete the USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist which accurately showed it had been updated today. All my system preferences save, except the file sharing pane.

I rebooted and it didn't work. It has the same preferences for all 3 users on the computer (setup, mine & root). Even changing the root user preferences didn't work.

I still don't get why it shows a file share for a user folder that has NEVER been on this computer.

BUT, I followed another suggestion, and I got this response to a terminal command - see image. Huh? I"m an admin on the computer. How do I find my user number? How do I find who is user 0?

Any help is appreciated...

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EllenBEX Author

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Feb 2, 2024 10:32 AM in response to BDAqua

Mojave 10.14.6 on a late 2015 iMac. I was trying to update to Monterey, but the update bricked the computer and I spent 2 days trying to fix it. Eventually had to wipe and rebuild it from the Time Machine.

I'm going to try removing the recovered ones, especially as they are from the prior computer.

Thank you for all the help!

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EllenBEX Author

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Feb 5, 2024 12:10 PM in response to BDAqua

And: no.

The information has not changed - still includes a file that was never on the computer.

And, it's still not activated at the boot.

I'm considering removing the root/library/preferences version, but I'm a bookkeeper in the middle of closing and don't want to risk the computer until I'm done and backed up.

I'm also considering updating to Monterey (next version offered), but that's what bricked my computer in the first place and I'm really afraid to do that.

Thanks for your help so far!

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