System Preferences not staying saved.

When I click the "require password to wake this computer from screensaver" button in System Preferences it works. Then a few minutes later I turn on the screensaver and walk away. I come back and it goes straight to the screen. I have clicked the lock button but it still doesn't works.

Repair permissions and try deleting the com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Preferences.

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System Preferences not being saved

I've set up Hot Corners with a modifier key, because my mouse cursor occasionally jumps around and ends up in the screen corners, where it would activate hot corners. However, suddenly yesterday (I think), the modifier key isn't being saved. The corner assignments are still the way they were. But the modifier key setting isn't "saved". I tried re-enabling the key settings. I'd click okay in the drop-down sheet, and then when I clicked the Hot Corners button again, the settings were there. Then, only a few hours later, the settings would be gone. It doesn't happen immediately.
In addition, I was on YouTube, and no matter where I clicked on the Mighty Mouse (now the Apple Mouse, I suppose) I get the right click menu. But where ever else I clicked on the page using the same location on the mouse, it was a normal left-click. When I disabled the secondary button in System Preferences (or rather, set both buttons as a primary button) it worked. But then the setting changed itself back to Secondary Button. What's going on?

Repair permissions and try deleting the com.apple.systempreferences.plist
~/Library/Preferences.

Microphone "Input Volume" Setting In "System Preferences" Not Being Saved.

Hello,
While using iChat for the first time, I was experiencing an echo sound. I went into System Preferences > Sound > Input, and changed my "Input Volume" slider from the default 71% down to 25%. This solved the echo problem.
The "Input Volume" will stay at my setting of 25% during this iChat session, and also upon quitting iChat. However, when I start a new iChat session, the "Input Volume" slider returns back to the default 71%.
How can I get the "Input Volume" slider to stay at my desired setting of 25% upon starting a new iChat session?
Thanks In Advance... Dean

Hi DeanMachine,
Time for http://www.apple.com/feedback/ichat.html I
think.
Ralph
Ralph,
Thanks for that suggestion. I did leave them feedback, describing this problem. Perhaps it is something that will be addressed in a future update.

HT1338 system preference not open so how guide to sample?

My mac book pro in system preference not open so how guide to sample?

Hello,
First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop for now...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

HT1199 Why I couldn't change my screensaver, my system preferences not responding?

Why my system preferences not responding (display & screensaver) and my mail doesn't received all mails?

Your
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
file is corrupt in your
(use the Finder > Go > Go To folder and paste & Go)
~/Library/Preferences
Trash the flle you can (may be two of them, one is a lock file) and reboot.
Reset your system preferences again.
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Security and privacy system preferences not working after Lion install. What to do?

Security and privacy system preference not working after Lion install. Not sure if it happen with Lion installer or after updating. What to do?

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in “normal” mode, not in safe mode. If you’re now running in safe mode, reboot as usual before continuing.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
Some of the commands will line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Note: If you have more than one user account, Step 2 must be taken as an administrator. Ordinarily that would be the user created automatically when you booted the system for the first time. The other steps should be taken as the user who has the problem, if different. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this paragraph doesn’t apply.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” (without the quotes) and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Copy or drag — do not type — the line below into the Terminal window, then press return:
kextstat -kl | awk '!/com\.apple/{printf "%s %s\n", $6, $7}'
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Step 2
Repeat with this line:
sudo launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.(apple|openssh|vix)|edu\.mit|org\.(amavis|apache|cups|isc|ntp|postfix|x)/{print $3}'
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Step 3
launchctl list | sed 1d | awk '!/0x|com\.apple|edu\.mit|org\.(x|openbsd)/{print $3}'
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Step 5
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
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You can then quit Terminal.

Systems preference not responding

I have tried all the 'solutions' to the problem of my system preferences not responding but none of them have worked. I would like to know if there is another solution not posted anywhere that i could try. Thanks

Try starting in safe mode to run a file ckeck. It may or may not do any good but an easy place to begin.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1564
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455

PMU Reset and System Preferences not Responding-Always 1969

Hi, I am having a problem that I have not been able to match up on forums (mostly because it's sort of hard for me to pinpoint a short way of typing it up).
I have had a problem before, with my PB not responding (to turning on after turning itself off), so I was familiar this morning when I found myself having to unplug the power adapter, unlatch the battery, holding the Power button for 5 seconds, plugging in the power and locking in the battery and finally Power again to reviving my Powerbook G4.
As usual, after startup, the date has been changed to December 1 1969 so if not changed, the computer may act erratically. My problem this particular time is that I cannot change the date or time! I can't even open System preferences, or use Get Info on my desktop icon of my computer's harddrive. It acts as if it's not responding, holding down my pointer on the System Preferences in the dock gives me the Options such as start on login, hide, Force Quit but when I go to click Force Quit, it does nothing. I cannot use Command-Option-Esc to open the Force Quit window. I click on the Apple pulldown tab at the top left of my screen and Force Quit does not respond there as well. THIS IS SO UNUSUAL TO ME and I am at a total loss at how to get things running smoothly again. I have restarted my powerbook a couple times (but only able to do this by holding down Power for a few seconds, again the Apple pulldown bar then Restart does nothing) but nothing changes the not responding System Preferences.
Any help would be greatly appreciated or even a hint at how to search this problem, narrow it down to a few words, searching 'System Preferences not responding or freezing' hasn't given me any similar troubleshooting results.
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laurenlovescomputers,
reset the PMU again.
your welcome,
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System Preferences not responding when opening desktop

After installing Lion 10.7, I find that whenever I try to change the desktop wallpaper in system preferences, it freezes and I have to force quit it.
I tried to find the systempreferences.plist, as seen from google searches, but I can't find it anywhere, and those seem to be solutions for SL, L or Tiger.
Help appreciated.
Thanks!

I've been having the same issue with system preferences in osx lion freezing and not doing anything for the past week. Your post solved the problem; all I had to do was move the iphoto library and the photo booth library to the desktop, then I moved them back to my pictures folder in the finder window. Now system preferences works like a charm, even if I restart the system the system preferences utilities are all accessible.
This solved the problem; whereas other posts that had me use disk utility to repair the hard drive or repair the disk permissions didn't solve the issue.
This now saves me a call to apple tech support
Thank you.
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Re: System Preferences not responding when opening desktop
Jul 23, 2011 1:27 PM (in response to alexhung)
It has to do with a problem accessing the images on the home>images folder. To solve it, just move its content (iphoto library included) to another place. Then, restart System Preferences. Moving your iPhoto library to another location seems to fix the problem. I am sure Apple will issue an update to correct this problem. But, for now this seems to work for me.

Mouse System Preferences not saved

I´m using a MacMini with the latest updtes and only apple harware, suddenly the mouse stoped puping up the dashboard, when I go to system preferences the scroll botton is not asigned to the dashboard, a click on it and then it works fine as long as i do not close system preferences, if I do close them then it stops working and if I reopen system preferences the button is again not asigned to the dashborad, the fact is that the preferences I define for the mouse regardless of the funcion i asign to them are not saved after closing system preferences.
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Sounds like you might have a series of corrupt preference (.plist) files, or else more problems.
likely a corrupt
com.apple.systempreferences.plist and a com.apple.dockpreferences.plist files in your User/Library folder
However it might not be just that alone
Run through this list of repairs in the order given (1-16)
Step by Step to fix your Mac
If you can't isolate the and solve problem by #16, then do #17 after backing up your data

System preferences not saving

Every time I log out, any system preferences I had set up are not saving. Such as what should boot up in the dock or what programs should be in the system bar or the settings for the keyboard and mouse.
Thanks for any guidance on this issue.

i did the:
chmod -RN ~/Library/Preferences
workks great and now my preferences are saving, but my MAIL preferences not, at least i fix one problem.
i found this:
" WillytheKidd
what I did or seem to have found is that if I do a clean install of Lion and do not use the Snow Leopard preferences from the Time Machine Backup I have I do not have a problem. I have tried several ways to fix this and the only thing that worked for ME is a complete clean install OS and apps. "
I used the preferences from my TM, maybe thats the problem.

Screensaver photos do not stay "saved" OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Ever since upgrading to OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) my screensaver (source = an iPhoto album) no longer stays saved. It keeps reverting to a canned screensaver set of pics.

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Repaired permissions & restarted your comp after the installations of the drivers?
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Mac 10.5.8 system preferences not responding when opening print and fax

My HP photosmart printer has stopped responding. The pinwheel comes up and freezes the computer when ever I try and access the printer, or anything to do with the printer. I have also tried going in through system preferences and the I cannot even access it. The pinwheel again pops up. I have not added any software lately. I have tried to update my software both for the Mac and the printer. There are no updates available. I am using Mac 10.5.8
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First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

System Preferences not detecting intel high definition audio

I have tried researching as much as possible before posting and I just can't find a solution.
I have a 2.4GHz Intel Core i7 Macbook Pro late 2011 running Mavericks 10.9.4 (13E28) on 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphincs 3000 512 MB, and my audio devices are not identified in audio MIDI setup or system preferences. Looking at system information the audio hardware is recognized (but there is no "built-in" beside 'audio' in the navigation pane).
I've tried reinstalling Mavericks, 10.9.0, 10.9.2, 9.3 and 9.4.
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After each install I've reset the PRAM and SMC for each reinstall.
I know my speakers work because I hear the chime when i start up. My internal microphone and line-in are also part of this problem with the audio devices. They don't show up in sound preferences either. To my knowledge the only issue seems to be with the audio.
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I'd appreciate any input, this is my first posting to the community. Thank you all for viewing.

I looked into the community and saw that someone had the exact same problem. Their solution was to backup valuable data and clean install the operating system. I have followed through on this and have sound =). Just waiting now for my backups to complete.
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Window preferences not being saved

Hi there -
Using InDesign CS4 on Windows XP. A few days ago a problem started happening - whenever I close InDesign, my preferences for which windows (Tools, Pages, Links, Character) I have open are not being saved. Takes me 3-4 minutes every time i open InDesign to put everything back the way it should be.
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