Notifications centre using the wrong Facebook profile

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Notifications centre using the wrong Facebook profile

When I upgraded to Mountain Lion, my partner happened to be signed in to his Facebook on my MacBook. It seems the Notification Centre is using his Facebook profile, so I'm getting his notifications. I have tried removing it and adding it again, and nothing works. There seems to be no option to 'switch profiles' or anything?

I've gone to System Preferences and made sure that it's my Facebook profile set up in Mail, Contacts & Calendars, but this doesn't seem to make a difference!

Can anyone help?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on May 16, 2013 1:53 PM

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Answer 1

Eric Root

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May 16, 2013 2:01 PM in response to marianne.sheila

Try disabling Facebook Notifications in System Preferences/Notifications and then set them back up again.

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Answer 2

Linc Davis

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May 16, 2013 5:30 PM in response to marianne.sheila

If applicable, sign out of iCloud in the iCloud preference pane. Leave the preference pane open.

Back up all data.

Triple-click the line below to select it:

~/Library/Application Support/NotificationCenter

Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select

Services ▹ Reveal

from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder named "NotificationCenter" selected. If it does, move the selected folder to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Log out and log back in.

Sign back in to iCloud, if you signed out. Test. If there's no change, or if the notifications you expect to see are not shown, sign out of iCloud again and put the folder you moved back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Log out and in again. Otherwise, delete the folder you moved.

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Answer 3

Jun 8, 2013 5:03 AM in response to marianne.sheila

I have this problem also, any suggestion? seriously anyone? 😟

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Answer 4

mariel18

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Jan 27, 2014 11:57 AM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc Davis,

Thanks so much! I tried every trick for hours but thanks to you it worked in the end and I got rid of the notifications!

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Answer 5

Andreea.

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Feb 16, 2014 1:39 PM in response to marianne.sheila

This works too:

Just go into "Settings" and click on "Internet Accounts" (it looks like the @ sign) and then click on Facebook and click the minus ➖sign at he bottom. It will delete the account and it will get rid of the notifications. Then to add your own personal account, click the plus sign ➕ and you can use your own log in....

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