tobyclifford
Level 1 (4 points)
Mac OS X

Q: date and time wrong

HI All

 

Hoping someone can help. Recently returned off holiday and started up my 2009 2.53 MacBook Pro running 10.10.5. Is started up with the date and time reset to the turn of the century and now unable to reset via system preferences and I am unable to access my ical or mail.

 

Any ideas how I may be able to rectify?

 

Kind Regards

 

Toby

Posted on Jun 6, 2016 7:56 AM

by Eric Root,Solvedanswer
Eric Root Eric Root
Level 9 (69,613 points)
iTunes
A:

What happens when you try to reset the date/time in System Preferences? Will it not set or does it keep reverting?

 

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.systempreferences.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.

Posted on Jun 6, 2016 9:11 AM

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  • by Eric Root,Solvedanswer

    Eric Root Eric Root Jun 6, 2016 9:11 AM in response to tobyclifford
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    Jun 6, 2016 9:11 AM in response to tobyclifford

    What happens when you try to reset the date/time in System Preferences? Will it not set or does it keep reverting?

     

    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.systempreferences.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.

  • by tobyclifford,

    tobyclifford tobyclifford Jun 6, 2016 9:11 AM in response to Eric Root
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Jun 6, 2016 9:11 AM in response to Eric Root

    Hi Eric

     

    Many thanks for your reply and suggestion. Don't ask me how but after a good few hours of restraining myself from launching the system down the garden it would appear to have resolved itself. Don't ask me how!

     

    Thanks once again for your time and knowledge though

     

    Regards

     

    Toby

  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Jun 6, 2016 9:32 AM in response to tobyclifford
    Level 9 (69,613 points)
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    Jun 6, 2016 9:32 AM in response to tobyclifford

    You are welcome. I'm glad it is working.