OS X Tiger Trouble Shooting Tips - /Library/preferences folder
recently my MBP (10.4.9) refuse to shutdown/reboot, and the power button which suppose to trigger the sleep/restart/shutdown command window no loner works either. The only way to restart my MBP is to press and hold the power button. I was wondering what can go wrong, repair permission does not work, clear cache etc does not work either. Searching around and not getting straight answer, then from some other users comment on solving an unrelated problem, I got my solution !
Step 1: create a new user and login as the new user to see if the same problem exists.
step 2: if the problem disappeared, the problem is likely lies in your existing user’s profile (especially ~/Library/preferences/ folder), if the problem does not disappear, try to move the main Library’s preferences folder to to somewhere else temporary (e.g. I moved /Library/preferences to my desktop), then restart to see if the problem disappear.
in my case, once I moved the main /Library/preferences, the shutdown problem is solved. Certainly if I want to , I can try to trial and error to see exactly which preference file caused the problem, but I did not bother to do that.
be aware, since preferences folder is where lots of applications saves their settings, once you moved them away, some application may loose their settings, you can then either put back the particular preference file or just re-do the settings for that application.
the same method should help to identify certain system problems which caused by corrupted preferences file etc.
enjoy . .
this post is originated at Justin's personal blog (click here to see the original post and many others)
Step 1: create a new user and login as the new user to see if the same problem exists.
step 2: if the problem disappeared, the problem is likely lies in your existing user’s profile (especially ~/Library/preferences/ folder), if the problem does not disappear, try to move the main Library’s preferences folder to to somewhere else temporary (e.g. I moved /Library/preferences to my desktop), then restart to see if the problem disappear.
in my case, once I moved the main /Library/preferences, the shutdown problem is solved. Certainly if I want to , I can try to trial and error to see exactly which preference file caused the problem, but I did not bother to do that.
be aware, since preferences folder is where lots of applications saves their settings, once you moved them away, some application may loose their settings, you can then either put back the particular preference file or just re-do the settings for that application.
the same method should help to identify certain system problems which caused by corrupted preferences file etc.
enjoy . .
this post is originated at Justin's personal blog (click here to see the original post and many others)
posted by Justin Zhang at 11:40 PM
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