Deleting a corrupt pref file

What file is it exactly? Some are fine to delete but others, specifically those that are locked, may give bad results when removed.

As a general rule, I do not mess with System files. It's locked for a specific reason. Do you know exactly which login file it is? Perhaps you can disable the app by going to System Preferences/Accounts/Login Items.

Do you actually have any login items on your account? Seems to me that Onyx is complaining because the file's empty.

Those may not be SYSTEM login items though. So it could still be empty, you can open it in Notepad and see what it has listed inside if you really care. Otherwise I would leave it be and ignore what Onyx says for now.

I would agree with the last poster; ignore Onyx. In fact, it's one of many so-called "maintenance" applications which I won't have on my computer, let alone run.

It's mostly user preference. Just like the fight between Mac, Windows and Linux. Why do people hate one, like another and never even heard of the other? Nobody knows. All personal preference for the most part. Though there are some things that do just plain out suck and everyone agrees to it.

That's not a standard file. If you don't know why it's there, delete it.

If it's not a standard file, how come all four of our Macs have it??

Some third-party software created it. It's not present in a clean installation.

My Macbook is a clean installation; I haven't reloaded any apps yet. In any case as com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist it's plainly not third party.

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noondaywitch wrote:
My Macbook is a clean installation; *I haven't reloaded any apps yet.* In any case as com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist it's plainly not third party.

What about Onyx?

My Macbook is a clean installation; I haven't reloaded any apps yet. In any case as com.apple.SystemLoginItems.plist it's plainly not third party.

I don't have such a file on my not-so-clean installation, in either /Library/Preferences/ or ~/Library/Preferences/, so it's not necessarily a part of a clean installation, unless there's something hardware-dependent going on. I certainly haven't deleted it.

It's hard to argue with the "com.apple" part of the file name, though. Definitely not third-party.