[BigDawgES]

Running 10.2.5.
After a certain amount of time, my admin user (using multiple users) fails to save System Preferences/Displays/Color: reseting it to the default, darker color management every login.
It also clears my Recent Items, though I don't know if this is related.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[jolipoli]

Originally posted by BigDawgES:
Running 10.2.5.
After a certain amount of time, my admin user (using multiple users) fails to save System Preferences/Displays/Color: reseting it to the default, darker color management every login.
It also clears my Recent Items, though I don't know if this is related.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

I log in as "root" and set my prefs there, and now they stay set in my main admin user account. I seem to remember reading this as a tip late at night, not sure about that, but it does seem to work.

Another question: are your other users able to keep their prefs? If so, it may be a corrupted pref file-com.apple.systempreferences.plist, com.apple.finder.plist, Calibrator Prefs, or ColorSync Cache- in the admin account. I don't find the "System Preferences/Displays/Color" file that you mentioned on my TiBook, but it may be the corrupted file.

You can throw 'em out (trash, but don't empty), one at a time to see how the system works when it replaces the pref with a fresh one, of course you'll have to reset all your choices for the new file.

I don't know if this has anything to do with your specific problem, but it is the logic that I use whenever I'm having a problem like you mentioned.

Hope this gives you a strategy in the right direction. Joel.

[TheDisaster]

Originally posted by BigDawgES:
Running 10.2.5.
After a certain amount of time, my admin user (using multiple users) fails to save System Preferences/Displays/Color: reseting it to the default, darker color management every login.
It also clears my Recent Items, though I don't know if this is related.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Try repairing your permissions using the Disk Utility app. Also, empty the entire contents of the following folders;

/Library/Caches/
/Users/your username/Library/Caches/

Deleting what is in these folders isn't bad, it's just storage for an app to look back on, but it doesn't need it. Sometimes some things in there can get whacked and cause problems.

Originally posted by jolipoli:
I log in as "root" and set my prefs there, and now they stay set in my main admin user account. I seem to remember reading this as a tip late at night, not sure about that, but it does seem to work.

That really isn't a tip, you shouldn't log in as root because it can set certain files to be owned by root, which can cause problems for other users down the road.

[jolipoli]

That really isn't a tip, you shouldn't log in as root because it can set certain files to be owned by root, which can cause problems for other users down the road.

Hmmm, I do all my app installs and OS upgrades from root, which I believe prevents problems of any other user not being able to use those files- after running repair permissions, of course. Only when I want an app to available to one user do I install from that account, otherwise root makes it available to all accounts.

I could be wrong, but it's worked for the last year.

BigDawgES, I hope that you've been able to take something from these replies and get your system back the way you want it to run.

Joel.

[TheDisaster]

I logged in as root on a daily basis for over 8 months. Once it caught up to me, it sucked. A lot.