10.4.11 disk utility says, OK. Disk Warrior says many corrupted plist files
I had been doing a permissions fix with disk utility and when I restarted, my entire home domain was GONE.
Disk warrior got it back, but DW says a big list of plist files can't be fixed
Address book won't open.
Is this the beginning of a fatal drive melt down?
Can I just toss all the corrupted plist files and retart>
Thanks,
Ty Ford
Hi! Ty ford
.plist are created by an application. Whenever I find that an application is acting strange: I restart, if that doesn't fix it I drag the .plist to my desk top and reopen the application and the application replaces it. I've never had a problem with disk utility which is an Apple application that is especially designed for the Mac. I would ignore the .plist warning unless all those applications fail to work properly. I have an old application that behaves erratically regularly and I restart to fix it; when restart doesn't work I remove the .plist and it runs OK again. One mistake I heard that some people don't turn off their Macs: What is the first thing that is suggested to fix the Mac when something doesn't work properly-Restart or Shut Down. I have very few problems with my old G4 because I shut it down when its not in use and OS 10.4.11 puts everything back in order at restart.
Dick
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