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Hi,
for last ±2 months I have problem with $SUBJ. I use no apps like Onyx, so does anybody have some idea why this is happening? It's really annoying when all my settings are gone.
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Haven't a clue, but you could make a copy and restore it when the original disappears. I've never seen that behavior.
Yeah, but this is a little bit impractical :-/
So nobody with similar issue?
mgilan wrote:
Yeah, but this is a little bit impractical :-/
Depends how clever you are... You could always write a command script that runs at login or some other time and performs these steps:
If (the file exists in library) copy file to save location
else copy file from save location back into library
Bob
Yeah, a script could do it and I can do one, but this solves a consequence and not the cause.
Create a new admin user account, log into it, and see if the problem persists. As I noted before, yours is the first I've ever heard of this issue.
I tried to repair permissions on my own, chown -R user:staff /Users/user and it looks o.k. Strange is, when I was looking on permissions in path to GlobalPreference, that they were o.k. Changes also were entered into the file, so I thought it was o.k.
So thanks to you all for your ideas, I will follow if the problem re-appears and I will let you know.
You would lose those settings if you did a PRAM Reset, or perhaps your PRAM battery has ended it's life?
Hmm, I'm not sure if settings like mobile me account, keyboard shortcuts and translucent menu bar are stored in pram. I have this issue on ±6 months old MBA and I see there no issue where volume/brightnes level, startup disk, ... are dissapearing. So I do not thought this could be issue with pram.
Hi mgilan, I am having the same issue. I'm just trying to narrow it down at the moment. Did you at any time install MagicPrefs or are currently using MagicPrefs? I've found some other people who use or have used that app before to be experiencing the symptoms that my account is going through right now.
Hi bigheadjer. Yes, I have used MagicPrefs before. Thanks for giving me a tip of what could have been the cause of the issue.
Hi, after a lot of mucking around and starting a conversation with the creator of MagicPrefs (see here) and following his suggestion to use fs_usage to monitor, my next suspicion is the Mail app.
These are the unlink calls that generally precede the GlobalPreferences.plist file disappearing from my Library/Preferences.
09:20:26.435 unlink [ 2] /Users/jetset/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist 0.000004 Mail
09:20:41.436 unlink [ 2] /Users/jetset/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist 0.000004 Mail
09:20:56.436 unlink [ 2] /Users/jetset/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist 0.000003 Mail
The two bundles I have installed are GPGMail and MailFollowUp. Anyone else running Mail with these bundles? It's also possible that it's a weird bug in Mail that's deleting GlobalPreferences, but that's much more unlikely because then almost everyone using it would be experiencing this issue.
Hi,
I am/was using GPGMail bundle. This is really interesting. Also repairing permissions with chown was not successful for you?
I tried repairing permissions using Disk Utility before and that didn't fix anything. Also, I already had the right permissions on .GlobalPermissions.plist and was the owner so chowning wouldn't have done anything.
I've uninstalled GPGMail since I use it rarely and will continue watching this for the next few days to see if anything has changed. Thanks for confirming the GPGMail thing.
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist dissapears randomly
