Notification Centre does not Remember Settings

@Adrianh43,

Sorry to hear my back up nose pick didn't help you. Perhaps I should have given a little pick to my ****!

No change for you. I take it this is happening not just on your Mac Air but other Macs as well. Best wishes at the Apple Store.

Will watch for your update and hopefully we can have a celebratory "pick party" later.

🙂😉😎

Edit:

We posted simultaneously... that ***** that you couldn't get it rectified today.

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Your nose-pick clearly did not do the job. An anus-pick is unlikely to improve matters. Unless it has a special friend in Cupertino. That Pick Party is defo on hold. Shame it's still not Rectu(m)-fied, I agree.

@Adrianh43,

Unfortunately, no special friends in Cupertino.

Running out of places to pick. Laughing at your "rectu(m)-fied sentence.

Well, I'll continue on my end to see if I can help you on your end.

Pun intended.

If I find anything I'll post it here.

I agree with you. I'm having the same problem, but I think it's iCloud that keeps resetting the notification settings. This is horrible design, though. On my iphone, there are notifications I want to pop up, like sms, messages, FB alerts, etc. On my macbook, I do not want them popping up. (Especially, if I'm giving a presentation or sharing my screen.) There should be a way to set them independently.

iCloud does not sync notification settings across devices. Frankly, I wish there was an option to do so. There is a bug and the fix I posted earlier in this thread works for most people (if you follow the directions carefully).

Also, if you presenting something or sharing your screen, just turn Do Not Disturb on (located above the date at the top of the notification screen in Yosemite). That will stop all notifications until you turn Do Not Disturb off.

Hope this helps.

Since updating to Yosemite 10.10.1 (about a week ago), Notifications have been working faultlessly for me.

It seems to be working for me as well. I'm glad that that nightmare is over!

I have the same issue - notification preferences get saved, but after a while (a week or two) they get changed back to the defaults.

OS X 10.10.3

A little more info would help those of us reading your question....

Have you updated to Yosemite? Your bio says you are using 10.4 so if that's accurate, you might want to update.

I realize you didn't ask me, just thought I'd join the conversation. After previously thinking that notifications were again working for me, they do not, at least not reliably. They may work for a day or three then they stop. They will start working again if I go in and deselect then reselect the ones I want to receive. I'm on a 21.5 inch mid-2010 run of the mill i-Mac with upgraded OWC RAM from 4 GB to 12 GB. I'm on OS 10.10.3. It'll be interesting to see if 10.10.4 is any improvement.

I have the same problem since yosemite, and now on sierra the bug is still not fixed.

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/

com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist

. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.