A couple days ago after restarting my imac I was shocked to find that my personal preferences had been reset to default and that some programs were behaving like they had just been installed. Firefox for instance asked me to import settings from safari, after skipping importing i found that all my bookmarks and add-ons were gone.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Intel Core i3
Today the IT department at my university set up my Early 2008 MBP to work with the library WiFi. While doing this they completely messed up my airport settings so now I cannot connect to my home network. Is there anyway I can reset the network settings to default like they way they were before? I am running Snow Leopard.
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Anyone who can enlighten me on how to reset the default display settings?
How to reset macbook to default settings?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOver the years my finder windows have been set to different colors, font sizes and so on. When I make a change I select the make default box in the show view options, but they never default except for that one finder window. I have erased com.apple.finder.plist and just for fun the com.apple.sidebarlists.plist but can not get the finder to go to a true default. Is there another plist that I am missing?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), I am not a blonde
I was trying to modify my monitor settings and hit the detect monitors button by mistake thinking it may help a sizing issue. Now after start up white screen with apple in the middle the monitor goes blank. Is there a way to restart while holding down keys to reverse this since I can't see anything on display?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I played around too much with the view options/columns and now I just want it back to how it was when it first came with the macbook.
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itunes, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
With the original installation cd missing, how do you reset a computer (with OSX 10.5 upgraded to OSX 10.6.8) to its default settings?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Every time I hit the print button on my Mac (I have an HP PSC 1210 all-in-one printer) the document prints at 10%. I know, I have to go into page set up and when i do that, the scale is always at 10% so I have to change the scale to 100%.why is it not automatically set at 100% anymore? And how can I make the print scale default to 100% so I don't have to go into page set up everytime I want to print?
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Mac OS X (10.6.4), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have this iMac for slightly over two years and when I forst got it I thought it would be a good idea to have it start up a 6:55am each weeday. After about a week I changed my mind and went back into Power Saver and turned off the settings. Since then, I can't tget the machine to quit auto-starting at 6:55, 7:55 and even sometime 8:55. I have called Apple, taken it in to an Apple store, they even claim to have replaced the computer
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My printer, an HP Officejet 8500A, has reset itself at 66% and everything printed comes oout too small. how do I change the default setting back to 100%? I can do this via the drop down print box but I'd like to make it a permanent fix.
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have the latest imac and I was wondering how to reset to factory settings, was it suppose to come with a DVD? If I need the DVD where would I go to get one ? The closest apple store is over three hours away.
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Basically I bought an iMac last October, 21", 4GB standard manufactured settings ram etc. After a few weeks every time I quit an application and go back on it, it returns to its old settings. Whenever I remove a bookmark from the toolbar on Safari and restart it, it returns to the old settings, when ever I restart the computer the dock and background changes towards its original settings. This is starting to get really annoying, and I don't know what to do and I have installed all available updates.
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iMac
I would like to reset my iMac to the state that it was in when it was first turned on. How can I do this?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
I've been having this problem for a little over a month now, I've spent countless hours researching, and every possible solution that I've come across hasn't worked for me. I've reset my PRAM, I've repaired my disk and permissions multiple times, even by using the Disk Utility on my Recovery Partition.
Basically, about two months ago I (regretfully) changed my account shortname by going to System Preferences>Users & Groups, right clicking on my account and changing the shortname in the advanced options. Everything was fine, but now when I restart my iMac, my desktop wallpaper changes back to what it was on the day I changed my shortname, any apps that I add to my dock are removed after i restart, Safari opens up the guide that I was using to show me how to change the shortname, the "Users & groups" window even appears as soon as I log in to my account. Basically, my iMac seems to be booting back to the day I changed the shortname, now any changes I make aren't saved.
Everything keeps restting back to the way it was on the day that I changed my shortname. Since then, I've changed the shortname BACK to what it was the first time, hoping that would fix the issue.
Also, I'm not sure if this is normal, but if I go to "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist", and check the permissions, "everyone" is on there twice:
It also does this for every other .plist file in my preferences folder.
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iMac (20-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
how do I reset my display color to the default setting? my daughter changed the settings and it looks like a thermal image
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have to reset my imac G5 that runs OS 10.6.8 to factory settings. I am not selling it but I do want to wipe everything off the hard drive and start over.... fresh.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Lion OSX want to reset Terminal to Factory Settings but I can't find the terminal.plist file in Library.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I need to reset it to factory settings as it has all of her information on there.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
How can I restart my Macbook Air to the fabric settings?
View 1 Replies View RelatedFind or reinstalling the systems preferences as well as the settings icon is lost. both were put in to the trash and trash has since been emptied . Is there any way of getting them back with out loseing eveything on my mac
Info:iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), iOS 5.0.1
i turn on my iMac it either freezes and the screen is all white or all blue. I have to try doing safe boot everytime i want to use it. While doing safe boot its not always sucessful, would have to do it 3 to 5 times until i get to the actual desktop.
View 17 Replies View RelatedMy girlfriend changed the user's name and the problems started (iMac wouldn't remeber system settings and denied access to some files and catalogs). When I wanted to fix the problem I probably made a mistake and changed the access settings of some files (finally even hard disk's settings). After this action my iMac doesn't start (the screen is white with the apple logo and nothing happens). Is there anybody who knows what to do now?
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iMac
Mac OS X (10.6.3)
a restart? ie I want the machine to update the software and then shut down and not restart?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm one of the folks who got an early 2008 MacPro, ordered the day after they were announced. Besides the 8800 GT card, I also have 4 GB extra OWC RAM and 2x500 GB WD hard drives installed.My problem (and I tried searching, didn't find anything) is that it I accidentally bump the tower, like with my knee since it sits under my desk, it will restart. I've tried padding the side that's up against a leg of my desk, but it still restarts. It has nothing to do with what's currently running just if I bump it, it restarts.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have System Preferences applications like Fan Control, Apple Qmaster, and others that require the System Preferences to quit and reopen, when I click one of the apps it used to tell me it needs to quit and reopen and then it open and load the application, but now it quits and doesn't reopen, when I open it myself the same message appears that it needs to quit and reopen, and the application never opens.
In the Console this message appears:23 Mar 2012 4:11:07 PM /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/Resources/launcher[8499] posix_spawnattr_setbinpref_np failed
This may have started to happen after I used MacKeeper Files Cleanup tools, because I've had a similar problem with another application as well.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 17"
I'm so damn indecisive I have been using the OS default Wallpaper since 10.1 Help me pick one thats not the default already, post em or link em here
View 4 Replies View Relatedi pretty much F'ed my airport settings in the preferences panel up.
How do i reset it back to normal, and will it delete my remembered log in keys ive saved?
Mac Mini loaded with Leopard OSX. When I try to put it into sleep mode it just goes down and then restarts.
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