Console not responding! How to delete plist?

Just to be sure: you are looking for the com.apple.console.plist in the Library/Preferences folder contained within your HOME folder, not the one at the root level of your directory?

charlie

Hi Felix,

I suspect you were looking at the root directory Preferences folder as opposed to the user directory Preference folder.

The console.plist file does exist in ~/Library/Preferences and is, indeed, called com.apple.Console.plist

There is another preference file called com.apple.Console.LSSharedFileList.plist which you can also remove as a diagnosis step.

Da Vinci

EDIT: Beaten by CT's faster keyboard skills. 😉

Weird. Kinda makes you think the beachball comes up because Console is not able to write to the preferences. If this were happening to me, I would try repairing permissions. Restart. It's a long shot, but maybe...

charlie

Hi again Felix,

If CT's further advice doesn't yield any results, try manually downloading and installing the 10.6.4 Combo update:

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1048

I see from your signature that you have 10.6.3 installed. If there's a reason why you have not updated to 10.6.4 then download and install the 10.6.3 v1.1 Combo update:

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1017

Da Vinci

composerguy78 wrote:
HI Da Vinci,

-My apologies, I should have adjusted my signature for this one. It's actually my wifes iMac that has this issue and it's an intel iMac from Jan 2009. We haven't upgraded her machine to snow leopard as it would involve upgrading photoshop -the version we have doesn't work with 10.6! So she's on 10.5.6 at the moment.

No problem.

In that case, if the 'repair permissions' thing doesn't work, either download and install the 10.5.6 Combo Update:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate

... or use Software Update to update to 10.5.8. As she's on 10.5.6 this will automatically list the Combo Update anyway.

Da Vinci

What Da Vinci said.

composerguy78 wrote:
oh dear, my apologies again. The iMac is up to 10.5.8!

Any suggestions?

😉

Hehe... no problem. 😉

Simply download and re-install the 10.5.8 Combo Update:

http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_8_ComboUpdate

Da Vinci