[kupan787]

I am not to sure why, but every so often, her install of OS X just reverts back to default. Her desktop picture, dock position, dock icons all get reset to the default. Her mail looses all the settings, and she needs to reset them (yet her old emails are still there...). And other things just revert back to if it was a clean install.

So I tried deleting all of her preferences. Didn't do any good. I don't want to do a reinstall just yet, but am out of options. I guess I could try setting up a new user, and see if this happens again. The only issue is that I am not at the house to help her out if it resets it self again.

Anyone heard of this before?

[DaedalusDX]

Originally posted by kupan787:
I am not to sure why, but every so often, her install of OS X just reverts back to default. Her desktop picture, dock position, dock icons all get reset to the default. Her mail looses all the settings, and she needs to reset them (yet her old emails are still there...). And other things just revert back to if it was a clean install.

So I tried deleting all of her preferences. Didn't do any good. I don't want to do a reinstall just yet, but am out of options. I guess I could try setting up a new user, and see if this happens again. The only issue is that I am not at the house to help her out if it resets it self again.

Anyone heard of this before?

I've had this happen to me before. Its rather sporadic. I eventually reinstalled, noticing that there was some serious corruption going on in my Preferences, but an option for you might be to verify permissions and repair any problems with Disk Utility. Good luck.

[tooki]

If the computer is low on RAM AND hard drive space, it's possible for virtual memory to eat up all the free space left on the drive, so when programs (yes, the Dock is a program, too) try to write their preferences to disk, they are told that there is no drive space, and so the preferences aren't written (and usually, the old ones are already gone at this point, so that's why it reverts to the defaults).

tooki

[kupan787]

Originally posted by tooki:
If the computer is low on RAM AND hard drive space, it's possible for virtual memory to eat up all the free space left on the drive, so when programs (yes, the Dock is a program, too) try to write their preferences to disk, they are told that there is no drive space, and so the preferences aren't written (and usually, the old ones are already gone at this point, so that's why it reverts to the defaults).

tooki

Thats just it though, she has 640 MB of ram, and at least 2GBs free disk space.

But I am going to do a reinstall, I figue that will be the best in the long run.

[mikemako]

error- plz disregard.