Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Since updating to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, I am unable to save any changes to the Notifications settings in System Preferences. After I log out or reboot, everything reverts back to default. I have tried deleting a number of plist files and repairing permissions, but nothing has solved the problem. Is anyone else having this issue?
Thanks,
Aaron
iMac, Mac OS X (10.0.x)
Yep, same here.
I'm on a 2007 iMac if it makes a difference.
Mine is a 2013 iMac.
It didn't work in the Beta either. I kept updating them, and just as fast I as updated, they were "restored" back to default. We thought Beta 6 fixed it, because I was actually getting my notifications on my mini, but it doesn't work on my MacBook Pro, either, which hasn't been updated to the latest build yet. It doesn't work on any of my machines, except my iPhone 5s. Both iPad2 and iPad mini keep changing, too. I also had to make a lot of network configuration changes for wireless and Time Machine after I installed the latest upgrade. None of that happened while running Beta 6. Something went really wrong between the final Beta and the release they did to the public on Thursday. Very sloppy work, Apple. I'm disappointed.
OK, as of 6pm PDT, Notifications are now coming through for mail, which they weren't earlier today, but the Notification settings still keep reverting to default and it looks like most of the other types of notifications are not showing up at all now. I turned a few more on to see if they work and will update if something changes. So someone must be working on it. There are a few other threads that people started on the forum about this, too. Interesting to see how many hoops people are trying to jump through to turn the darn things off. Let's be glad it's just an annoyance and not an essential part of the software. in any case, it should have been fixed weeks ago when we first noticed it wasn't working.
I'm not even talking about if the notifications actually work correctly. I'm just changing the settings, logging off, and logging back in, and they always revert to the defaults.
And isn't it frustrating to see all tbose notifications on your locked screen? I think I must have unchecked that box a zillion times by now, considering the large number of notification scripts I have loaded and have tried repeatedly to change. I can't keep the ones I want to work on, or turn the ones I don't want off. I just want the entire Notification system turned off right now until they fix it. I decided to delete as many notification scripts as I could, but there's still too many that come pre-loaded that you can't just delete without affecting the programs they report from.
I don't even get that many notifications, but it's just annoying that I can't set them up how I like. If this happened on my phone, I'd go nuts though. I just updated a 2012 Macbook, and it has the same issue: change the Notifications settings, reboot, settings are back to default.
The Do Not Disturb setting seemed to stick for me if you want to turn everything off. Scroll up in the Today tab of the Notification Center, and you get this (not very intuitive, since you'd think you'd control this from the Notifications tab):
I rebooted following this change, and it stuck.
Here are the instructions I got from AppleCare from an Apple Engineer. I'm not sure if the fix was specifically for my machine or if it'll work for someone else. Follow at your own risk.
1. Open the Library folder in your Home folder.
2. In the Library folder, open the Application Support folder.
3. Locate the folder named NotificationCenter. Drag this folder to the desktop.
4. Next, open the Terminal application.
Copy and paste each line of these commands into the Terminal window, in order. Press return after each line:
cd `getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR`
rm -rf com.apple.notificationcenter
killall usernoted; killall NotificationCenter
5. Close the Terminal app.
6. Restart your computer.
The notification preference changes won't stick until you restart a 2nd time after this.
Thanks, this solved the issue for me. Guess these days it takes Terminal commands for it to "just work" 😕
Hi, Thanks for the tip. I had the same issue. Just tried this solution and it looks like it has solved the problem.
Thank you! So far so good. However, what do we do with the Notifications Folder that we moved to the desktop? I was assuming delete it as Yosemite would simply rebould a new one - but there is no new one?
I followed the instructions given by Dan, and after the second restart, the order of the widgets in the today view were still not sticking. Maybe I need 3 restarts?
Many thanks. This helped me, too. The settings stuck after the second restart, per Dan's instructions.
Notifications Preferences not Sticking
