OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Preferences Will Not Save?
May 26, 2012
I have just recently upgraded to Lion and created a Snow Leopard partition to run some of my old pieces of music software. I've got a bit of annoying problem where I can't chnge the mouse preferences in the Snow Leopard partition. I can change the dropdown boxes to set the right click etc. and they stay populated all the while that System Preferences is open. However, the funcitonality of the buttons does not change and when closing and re-opening System Preferences the dropdowns are populated with the default options again.Â
I've tried deleting SystemPreferences.plist but this hasn't helped. EDIT: I've also removed the Documents and Downloads stacks from my dock and since restarting these have appeared again. As has the System Preferences icon in the Dock. It seems to be more widespread than just mouse preferences.Â
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iMac 2.8GHz 2GB, Logic 8.0.2, Mac OS X (10.6.8), AKAI MPK49, Focusrite Saffire, Tannoy Precision 6Ds
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Sep 3, 2009
In Snow Leopard there is no longer a Preferences item on the Image Capture menu. I was looking for the option When a camera is connected, open:. I eventually found it in iPhoto preferences. Is this correct, or is my install (u/g from Leopard) broken? Also, what other Image Capture prefs were there, and where are they now?
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Sep 6, 2009
my System Preferences sometimes hangs when i open it in Snow Leopard and i have to force quit it and then reopen to use it properly.
trashing its cache seems to relieve it temporarily but it soon starts to happen again and ive tried trashing its preferences file.
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Apr 10, 2012
I'm on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and when I click on Networks tab in System Preferences it freezes at Loading Network..
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 12, 2012
I'm doing technical support for mac users of our java application. One user's problem is that the app doesn't launch. At first, I thought his version of java is not updated but told me that it is updated based on the Software Update. Then I thought the problem's here is that the JRE's not turned on so I made him open the Java Preferences. But sadly, this doesn't open too. I made him gave me the logs on the Console to check the error.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Intel Core 2 Duo Processor - 2GB Ra
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Apr 22, 2012
i lost my ssystem preferences on my macbook pro snaow leaopard. How do i get it back
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 26, 2012
Suddenly in the last few weeks my Safari preferences won't stay. I set a home page and "a new window opens with the same page" and within a few minutes, Safari has forgotten it and when I open Safari I just get a blank page. I have tried deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist file which works temporarily, then it forgets everything again.I am also having a problem with my monitors holding a calibration. I use a monitor test kit and the monitors aren't retaining the icc profile information. I mention this as it could be related??I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with a quad-cor intel Xeon running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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May 4, 2012
System Preferences appear corrupted within 10.6.8 - mouse will not activate any commands within any preference and will not close Finder windows (or initiate apps with a double click as it used to). Have tried rebooting and resetting PRAM and NVRAM.Â
Another user account on the same machine appears to working without issue. Think my young son may have dabbled with system preferences after he downloaded Minecraft last night.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 8, 2012
I cannot access account preferences, it only shows a blank window.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 14, 2012
Why my system preferences not responding (display & screensaver) and my mail doesn't received all mails?
Info:iMac (27-inch Mid 2011)
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Sep 21, 2009
I went from having 16gig free before installing, to 33gig!
Can this be right?
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Feb 16, 2012
I selected all the emails in a mailbox. Opened a new email, clicked in the body and click edit>append something or other. All the selected emails from the mailbox appeared in the new email. I click print and mail locks up and I have to force quit It's supposed to open a print dialog box in which I should be able to click PDF in the lower left corner... but I can't get that far. How can I save these emails as a PDF?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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May 20, 2012
Is there a autosave app for snow leopard kinda like the auto-save for lion? Since I do alot of illustrator and photo-shop design I would love to have this feature.
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Feb 1, 2012
system preferences not responding in snow leopard
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
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Mar 12, 2012
I've had my MacBook Pro for just over a year now and it's been awesome (it was my first Mac after being a PC user for 20 yrs).Â
As soon as I got my Mac I modified the mouse & keyboard to act more like windows:modified the control key to work as commandenabled secondary (right) click on the track padÂ
This worked fine for a long time, then all of a sudden in the last month or so these preferences keep being lost and I need to go back in and set them up again.
Have I 'unlocked' some setting that allows these preferences to keep resetting? Or is my mac suffering from windows-like OS issues?
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Apr 19, 2012
My computer just got back from the shop (in Vienna, im studying abroad till august) because my computer wouldnt start up anymore after crashing multiple times. They replaced the RAM and said that they couldn't get airport to work. but that wasnt exactly the whole story. Network Preferences apparently doesnt exist anymore. I've tried to locate the com.apple bits that should be resettable, and I've tried a PRAM restart. still no network settings, and no internet at all. Super frustrating since i just picked him up today.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 26, 2012
I am unable to access system preferences. When I choose it under the apple it brings up the icon in dock but you can't access anything in it.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 3, 2012
Whenever I need to restart my MacBook Pro, a bunch of my preferences are lost. For example, I have to drag Google Chrome back in the dock. I lose my Expose preferences, login items I've disabled still pop up. Keyboard shortcuts with Spotlight (which I keep disabled because of a program I use), get set to default. It's terrbily frustrating to have to reset all these things over and over again and I can't find the answer. Part of it is I'm not terribly saavy with computer language. I can find the Terminal and type in commands though.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 1, 2012
After this update my old Photoshop 8.0 and my Dreamweaver 8 crash when I try to open or save a file.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 2, 2012
Okay so i have sparrow lite, and when i've got my new credit card, i'm going to buy the full version 'cause i'm having issues with the mail app that came with the mac, and i have an email i wanna save.Is this possible in the lite version?Is it possible in the full version?
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Apr 24, 2012
When ever I move any file to the trash, or choose delete from the file menu. Snow Leopard always warns me that this file will be deleted immediately and can not be recovered. How do I get the trash to function again?
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iMac Intel 17" 2.0 Duo 3gigs
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May 14, 2012
I cannot modify then save or create a new Applescript and save it on my MacPro. I get an error message saying I don't have permission. To view or change permissions select the item in the Finder then chose File > Get Info. When I do that, and enter my pass phrase to unlock the lock at the bottom right of the Get Info window I can do that, but I cannot change the Privileges and I wouldn't know what to change them to anyway.
If it helps, I'm running off a drive that used to be my backup drive and the info on it was copied by Carbon Copy Cloner. Also, I recent reinstalled the OS because the machine wasn't booting from the drive reliably. After the reinstallation I ran Disk Warrior, Disk Utility (permissions and repair), optimized the drive with DiskTools Pro and checked its SMART status.
I should add that if I restart off my main drive I can change and save scripts. But I don't want to use that drive as my main drive anyore as I upgraded it to Lion which I don't like (Lion killed my most important applications).
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Feb 3, 2012
iMac 2.66 GHz
OS X 10.6.8Â
Unable to retain "short year settings" in Preferences > Language & Text > Formats. Â
Am able to set the year setting in the customize window to two digits with the pop-up menu for the year, which then appears correctly when the customize window is closed. However, after the Preference window is closed and re-opened, the year appears in 4 digits. The is occurring on one of the accounts. Â
The same procedure was used to set the date formats in the Administrator account, where it worked correctly.Â
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Mar 29, 2012
I've accidentally deleted the Ink preferences panel file; is there any way to get it back? i can't make my graphic tablet work.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 15, 2012
I have my Energy Saver preference set to turn off my monitor after 20 minutes of idle time. But the display never goes off.Â
Energy Saver used to work, now it doesn't and I have no idea why not, or what changed.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 6 Gb Ram
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Jun 2, 2012
trying to add a new user or do anything in system preferences that requires me to unlock - I type in my password (correctly) and the lock will not open.Using a MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, running Snow Lepoard (10.7.4) logged in as adminstrator user.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.3)
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Jun 22, 2012
I need to know how to make it so all user accounts can use System Preferences, only the Administrator Account can open Systerm Preferences.This happened when I updated to Snow Leopard.
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iMac (17-inch Early 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Sep 15, 2009
Having an issue where Preview is crashing at the end of a Save As (hangs briefly when the progress bar is full, then crashes) -- happens pretty consistently. Running 10.6.1 (on top of a fresh 10.6 install), but happened in 10.6 as well, though perhaps not as often. Have plenty of memory.
One snippet of the crash report:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
I have a vague feeling that the issue might not be in Preview, per se, but in the OS.
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Sep 8, 2009
Image Capture in Snow Leopard defaults to saving to the Pictures folder, but I want to change it to the Desktop instead. If I simply change it in the app, close it, and open it again, it reverts back to the Pictures folder.
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Feb 16, 2012
Is there a work around how can preview save a locked JPG file? PNG's can do a save as in preview even if is locked.Â
here is the error below.Â
the reason why i want to find out is because outlook saves their attachment files locked and if i open them in preview, i cannot do a save as on JPGs.Â
i have not tried any other image viewer to automatically open the attachments and save them. PNG attachements behave alright so why can't JPGs?
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