Since I upgraded to Lion, mail can't save my preference changes. Neither can the finder. I get the error message in mail "writing your preferencess to disk has failed. Your preferences may not have been saved. The permissions on ~/Library/Preferences may be wrong... " I get the same message after I run Disk Utility and run the repair preferences option, which says my preferences are OK. Anybody have a fix for this?
poli
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Hi Polibop,
It took time to me solving this same issue (preferences not saved in Apple Mail, Calendar... even Mail password sometimes couldn't save).
I suspected user permissions were wrong but correcting permissions with Disk Utility did not help. Even the "Reset home folder permissions and ACL's" did not fix the issue.
4 years later then ;-)
Try BATCHMOD (http://batchmodmac.en.softonic.com/mac) and fix your /users/username/library permissions. Ensure the checkbox "Clear ACLs (10.5+)" is checked.
It worked for me. Hope it will be of help.
K.R.
lion preferences not saved permissions mail
