[AlanSteven]

If this question doesn't belong in this forum, my apologies. Anyhow, the problem is as follows: Preferential Treatment reports about the preference called .com.nsoft.util.plist that the "stream has too few bites." Since I have no idea of what this particular prefence belongs to, I'm not sure it would be safe to delete it. Any suggestions would be welcome. Many thanks

[Big Mac]

What's Preferential Treatment?

[AlanSteven]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

What's Preferential Treatment?

Preferential Treatment is an intelligent and useful program that checks the status of both the user's and the system's preferences. Very useful.

[Big Mac]

Sounds like a nice little app; I'll have to try it out. The worst thing that can happen due to deleting a preference file is that you would lose some settings, so feel free to move or delete it if you wish.

[AlanSteven]

Many thanks for the advice. I finally worked up the nerve to trash the offending preference file; ran Preferential Treatment again and found that it now reported no problems. So far at least, I can't see that getting rid of the file did harm to anythiing. Thanks again.