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Preferences resetting in OS X
MengerSponge
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So, I've been using OS X (first 10.3, now 10.4) for about 2 years now, since I got my iBook G4. One problem has persisted, even though I've reformatted several times, even upgrading to an entirely new version of the OS: now and then, when I start up my computer, a bunch of my preferences will be reset. Video types that I have set to open with VLC are reset to open with QuickTime. Documents open with textedit, not MS Office or NeoOffice. Firefox has to ask again to be the default browser, and Thunderbird asks to be the default mail client. Additionally, when I open some programs after this happens, I get the message about "this is the first time you've used this program, sure you want to open it?" Other settings are left alone; window settings, desktop background, folder views, etc. are all unchanged.
The weird thing is that it happened on 10.3, it happened after I reformatted with 10.3, happened after the upgrade to 10.4, and after that reformat to 10.4; I have no idea what could be carrying over every time. I've completely erased the hard drive at least twice, and installed two different versions of the OS from two different sources (10.3 from the included discs, 10.4 I bought separately.) I figured it was a problem with some preference files or somesuch, so I got a program to repair file permissions, clean caches, remove temporary files, etc., but it keeps happening. Also, it doesn't even happen every time, or only after doing a certain thing, or not doing a certain thing; it's completely random as far as I can tell.
Has anyone else ever had this happen? As I said I'm on an iBook G4, using OS X Tiger with all the updates (now on 10.4.8). It's a huge pain resetting all my filetypes every week or two, and nothing I've done has had much effect.
The weird thing is that it happened on 10.3, it happened after I reformatted with 10.3, happened after the upgrade to 10.4, and after that reformat to 10.4; I have no idea what could be carrying over every time. I've completely erased the hard drive at least twice, and installed two different versions of the OS from two different sources (10.3 from the included discs, 10.4 I bought separately.) I figured it was a problem with some preference files or somesuch, so I got a program to repair file permissions, clean caches, remove temporary files, etc., but it keeps happening. Also, it doesn't even happen every time, or only after doing a certain thing, or not doing a certain thing; it's completely random as far as I can tell.
Has anyone else ever had this happen? As I said I'm on an iBook G4, using OS X Tiger with all the updates (now on 10.4.8). It's a huge pain resetting all my filetypes every week or two, and nothing I've done has had much effect.
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