Backup Finder and Dock settings?

What files do I need to include in my Backup app backup plan, to preserve my finder and dock settings in case of crash?

I found this thread looking for a solution to a Dock issue. Something odd is happening on my Mac Pro—with every restart, my Dock is reduced to a meagre 4 programs and even when I repopulate it with the 15 or so items I like to have in there, they're gone at the next reboot.
I looked for com.apple.dock.db, com.apple.finder.plist, and com.apple.dock.plist in my home/library/preferences folder, none are there. Is there anywhere else they are stored?

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Reset All Settings of Finder and Dock

How to reset all settings of Finder and Dock?
I want to Finder and Dock like new after installing OS.

Delete the preference files:
/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
/Users/~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.db
Then restart.
Where '~' is your account user name

WHERE ARE "DESKTOP" AND "DOCK" SETTINGS STORED?

I want to backup my desktop and dock settings. Where are they stored so that I can do this?
Thx.
Mike

If you are backing up your home folder, you are also backing up your user prefs all of which are stored in "Your User Name"/Library/Preferences. There are several other "Preferences" folders that contain "global" prefs, namely /Library/Preferences and /System/Library/Preferences.
One potential "trap" though... corrupted prefs files are often the cause of anomalous system behavour so saved prefs should be copied back into new folders with caution.

Finder and Dock keep crashing

The story before the problem:
I tried to defrag my MacBook (core2duo) with Techtool Pro and it failed, then MacBook didn't boot in normal or safe mode.
Disk utility reported error but refused to correct it, fsck -fy in single mode didn't help too and failed before finishing the repair process.
I used Disk Warrior 4.1 to repair the hard disk and it did the job pretty good and after repair MacBook could be boot again.
Now another problem happened and keeps occurring.
The problem:
After finally booting the MacBook I found that I can't use the system because there is no menu bar, dock appears and disappear in just second repeatedly and desktop icons too. (also I noticed that desktop background has been changed to OS X 10.5 default)
So I think that problem is finder crash (that cause also dock crash) that is happening in only 2 seconds again and again and makes the system unusable even for troubleshooting purposes.
What I did before this post (and problem exist yet!):
1- Safe boot
2- cmdoption+fo to reset
3- cmdoption+pr to pvram reset
4- running disk utility from leopard dvd and repaired permissions. (also it reports hdd is ok)
5- made another user and logged in to new user,
surprisingly the new user works just fine and without any problem. (cause I thought it should be a system wide issue)
6- deleted finder .plist
7- moved the .plist folder of old user (after I found that it wouldn't help it has been returned)
8- reinstalled the 10.5.2 combo update
these steps didn't solve the problem. and yet my old user keeps crashing on finder and the new one is works pretty good.
If there is any way to solve this problem (except OS reinstall or deleting the bad user and transfer to new one) please guide me.
the problem is I really don't want to deal with all the data transfer and customization process again! I have all my data in the old user and yes I can transfer all data and files from there but I will be happy if I can do anything else.
here is the log file I found for these crash:
(not in this regard, but amazingly I noticed that the crash log reports finder version 10.5.3!)
Process: Finder [395]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Identifier: com.apple.finder
Version: 10.5.3 (10.5.3)
Build Info: Finder_FE-6071400~5
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [332]
Date/Time: 2008-03-13 22:34:20.253 +1000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 7
Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91937a2e semaphorewait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9193f505 pthreadmutexlock + 569
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b77e53 CFPreferencesSynchronize + 35
3 com.apple.FileSync.framework 0x94f94eb1 SFIDiskMirrorCopyIDiskUsername + 247
4 com.apple.FileSync.framework 0x94f94d93 isAnyIDiskMirrorEnabled + 17
5 com.apple.FileSync.framework 0x94f95018 SFIDiskMirrorRegisterAvailabilityCallback + 147
6 com.apple.finder 0x0004f3bf 0x1000 + 320447
7 com.apple.finder 0x0004f2ac 0x1000 + 320172
8 com.apple.finder 0x0004f279 0x1000 + 320121
9 com.apple.finder 0x0004f106 0x1000 + 319750
10 com.apple.finder 0x0004ef1d 0x1000 + 319261
11 com.apple.finder 0x0004ec04 0x1000 + 318468
12 com.apple.finder 0x0004e904 0x1000 + 317700
13 com.apple.finder 0x0004e22b 0x1000 + 315947
14 com.apple.finder 0x0004ddaf 0x1000 + 314799
15 com.apple.finder 0x0004da0f 0x1000 + 313871
16 com.apple.finder 0x00028063 0x1000 + 159843
17 com.apple.finder 0x00023528 0x1000 + 140584
18 com.apple.finder 0x000f37d9 0x1000 + 993241
19 com.apple.finder 0x000094e6 0x1000 + 34022
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x919379e6 machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9193f1dc mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b0c0de CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1806
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b0cd74 CFRunLoopRun + 84
4 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9452c46f TSystemNotificationTask::SystemNotificationTaskProc(void*) + 123
5 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1dbeb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x919379e6 machmsgtrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9193f1dc mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b0c0de CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1806
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b0cd74 CFRunLoopRun + 84
4 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9452c5e8 TFSEventsNotificationTask::FSEventsNotificationTaskProc(void*) + 216
5 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1dbeb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 3:
0 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95ad6d0e GetCatalogEntryTablePos(CatalogEntry const*) + 8
1 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95ad7d03 CSStoreGetUnit + 43
2 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e80074 _LSContainerGet + 45
3 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e7f9d9 _LSBundleFindWithNode + 531
4 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e99109 _LSGetNodePkgInfo(LSContext*, FSNode*, LSBundleData const**, FSNodePkgInfo*) + 121
5 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e98fdc _LSTypeDataInitForNode(LSContext*, LSTypeData*, FSNode*, __CFString const*, unsigned long) + 418
6 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e98d4f _LSGetBindingForNode + 99
7 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e98540 _LSCopyBindingInfoForItemRefInfo + 930
8 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e8c690 ISBuildBaseImage(FSRef const*, HFSUniStr255 const*, unsigned long*, FSCatalogInfo*, CustomBadgeResource*, unsigned long, unsigned char*, OpaqueISImageRef**) + 1810
9 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e8bdd4 GetImageForFSItem + 776
10 com.apple.LaunchServices 0x96e8b8c2 GetIconRefFromFileInfo + 712
11 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x94540a41 LockGetIconRefFromFileInfo(FSRef const&, unsigned long, unsigned short const*, unsigned long, FSCatalogInfo const*, unsigned long, OpaqueIconRef**, short*) + 97
12 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x945405b0 THFSPlusRef::ReadIconRefForProxy(OpaqueIconRef*&, bool) const + 272
13 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x94574006 TNode::CreateNewVirtualChildProxy(TNodePtr const&, unsigned long, TNodePtr&) + 200
14 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9453878a TChildrenList::GetSFLList() const + 1142
15 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x945382c5 TNodeSyncTask::HandleInternalEventVirtualChildListChanged(TCountedPtr<TNodeEven t> const&, TNodePtr const&) + 41
16 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x94538194 TNodeSyncTask::HandleInternalEvent(TCountedPtr<TNodeEvent> const&) + 320
17 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x94537ac6 TNodeSyncTask::SyncTaskProc(void*) + 160
18 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1dbeb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
19 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
20 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91937a46 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91969daf pthread_condwait + 1244
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9196b633 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95afe92a TSWaitOnConditionTimedRelative + 246
4 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1f654 MPWaitOnQueue + 208
5 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x945399c4 TFolderSizeTask::FolderSizeTaskProc(void*) + 104
6 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1dbeb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
8 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x919635ee stat$INODE64 + 10
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b76904 -[CFXPreferencesPropertyListSource synchronize] + 36
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b7366d -[CFXPreferencesPropertyListSource getValueForKey:] + 45
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91b77a3a CFPreferencesCopyValue + 154
4 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x9630ad95 booleanValueForPreferenceKey + 63
5 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x9630e220 StatusMonitor::loadNetworkBrowserPreferences() + 86
6 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x9628a7cf StatusMonitor::start() + 53
7 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x96289434 NetworkBrowser::openNode(__NWNode*, __CFString const*, unsigned long) + 170
8 ...ple.CoreServices.OSServices 0x96289376 _NWBrowserOpenNode + 58
9 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9453fdc7 TNode::DoExternalRegistration(TCountedPtr<TNotifier> const&) + 629
10 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9453f9d1 TPropertyTask::HandleInternalRegisterForNotification(TCountedPtr<TNodeTask> const&, TNodePtr const&) + 131
11 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9453f845 TPropertyTask::HandlePropertyRequest(TCountedPtr<TNodeTask> const&) + 729
12 com.apple.DesktopServices 0x9453f40f TPropertyTask::PropertyTaskProc(void*) + 177
13 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95b1dbeb PrivateMPEntryPoint + 56
14 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
15 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91937a46 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91969daf pthread_condwait + 1244
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9196b633 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 0x906ad9de _QLLockDatabaseWaitForUpdateToFinishIfPossible + 630
4 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 0x906add49 _QLGeneratorCopyGeneratorForContentType + 39
5 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 0x906a67bc QLThumbnailSupportsContentUTIAtSize + 138
6 com.apple.finder 0x00049355 0x1000 + 295765
7 com.apple.finder 0x00048ec3 0x1000 + 294595
8 com.apple.finder 0x00009d22 0x1000 + 36130
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 7 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x91adf0bb CFDictionaryGetValue + 43
1 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 0x906ae055 _QLLoadPluginAtURL + 209
2 com.apple.QuickLookFramework 0x906ae993 _QLPlugInLoadThreadTask + 1239
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968c55 pthreadstart + 321
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91968b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 7 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xa01c54ec ebx: 0x91adf09e ecx: 0xa01c51a0 edx: 0x00000010
edi: 0x0057a530 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0xb03b5e48 esp: 0xb03b5e30
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010283 eip: 0x91adf0bb cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000

Thanks mate for your reply.
About the mess Techtool Pro 4.6.1 made, from 1995 until last year that I moved to Mac (by a MacBook) I guess I did defragmentation, in average, every week on 6 different machines with almost every version of microsoft's OS from dos 5 to windows xp sp2, and never ever something like this happened to me! I even don't remember that windows asked me about making backup just for defrag! Isn't it mucking to make a 50GB backup everytime you are going to do a defrag!
and about that Techtool Pro mucking stuff I should say that it is the worst piece of software I have ever seen. this state f the art! program said that there is a minor problem in the HDD and it should fix it before defrag, after I said go ahead it mucked my HDD but said that the minor problem fixed! but refuses to defrag again cause this time it found a major problem and recommended to try another fixing routine in the program and after that I found my HDD totally mucked up! impressive specially for a software that claims to solve problems others can't.
Any way at the end there is some moral lessons in this story!
1-Don't use Techtool Pro to fix your HDD, you can use it on your bad guys computer to muck them up but not on your computer!
2-Always backup, and also backup your backup if possible.
3-Don't ever think that you can do something here because you did it successfully some where else!
Thanks Pal, I will give your advice a try

Can't find Finder and Dock and Desktop has disappeared

I was backing up my MBA (OS 10.6.0) today using Superduper and something strange happened.
My hard drive became corrupted and filled with files (105 GB used and 0 GB available). The HDD capacity is 120GB. About 15GB is bootcamp. The backup failed.
I deleted a few files and freed up 200MB when I realized the hard drive had become full (I had 20GB free space on the Macintosh HD before this).
When I checked Disk Utility it told me my hard drive was corrupted and I should repair it using the operating system disc (Snow Leopard) to start up the computer and then go to Disk utility and perform Repairs.
I did all that and Disk Utility told me the hard drive was OK after the repair.
However, when I restart the computer, I get a blue screen. I cannot see the Dock. And Finder cannot be found. When I do Force Quit, there is no Finder in the list.
For some reason even though I do not have a Dock, I was able to get a menu at the top. I don't know what I did to get it. Suddenly I got a message saying I couldn't open iTunes even though I didn't try to open it (the Dock has disappeared). But at least I got some menu at the top.
With the menu I was able to open some items on Recent Items including Firefox.
I went to my email and tried to send some files to the same email address. I was able to browse Finder by doing this and my Desktop seems to be OK. I can open various files by using the browse function in upload files in my email and they all seem OK.
So I know that my Desktop files are intact. I haven't checked them all (I have like 50 files on my desktop) but on a quick look, all the Desktop items appear to be there.
How can I get the Desktop and the Dock back?
How can I get Finder to show up?
I just have a blue screen at the moment.
When I get the Desktop back I want to erase some files and create space.
Somehow the hard drive got filled up when I tried to do a backup using Superduper.

All resolved.
I attached an external drive to the MBA in an attempt to export Firefox Scrapbook files onto it.
Exporting failed (my fault – I didn't follow the steps correctly) and I ended up having to restart the computer.
Surprisingly the screen opened in bootcamp.
Because there was an external hard drive connected to the computer, I presume this is what prompted the computer to open in bootcamp. Normally I would have to hold down the Option key to open bootcamp but my computer's hard drive had been corrupted so ....
From bootcamp (Windows XP) I restarted the computer, this time holding down the Option key.
I selected the Mac volume as the startup disk.
When it booted, it sputtered a few times and it looked like it was going to open in the blue screen again (I could see the familiar strange things that occur when it opens in the blue screen). However, after a while, it opened with the Desktop screen.
All the icons I had on the Desktop appeared and I had the screen back to normal with Dock and everything there.
I deleted some items (I only had 200MB left) to create some room on the hard drive.
After browsing the web, I came across the reason for why my HD suddenly filled up during the failed back up before things went awry.
From Pink Mutant
http://pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
"Failed Backups and the Volumes Folder
Another potential stealer of hard drive space is a failed backup, where the drive the backup was supposed to go to was unavailable, so the backup software simply copied the files into the invisible /Volumes folder. Again, use the Go and Go to Folder menu bar item ....."
This is exactly what happened to me. I found the two volumes, "Untitled" and "Untitled 1" as Pink Mutant said I would in "Go" ("Go to Folder") and I deleted them (I should have backed up my computer before doing this though). Straightaway, 20GB of space came back on my HD.
My computer had copied the backup onto my HD instead of the external HD during the failed backup operation. That's why the internal HD filled up.
So it's a relief that I got the Desktop back again – purely by accident – and I also found what was filling up all the HD space.
So a tip: if someone finds their backup fails for whatever reason, don't try to back up again. Check HD space and if it has suddenly shrunken, go to "Go", and then "Go to Folder", type "/Volumes" and click "Go". That should bring up the offending volumes if any. Move them to Desktop. Check "Get Info" and have a look at the contents if you can (I couldn't). Do a backup of the computer. Then delete the problem volumes (if you find that these volumes are the cause of the problem). You can then delete the same volumes from the backup at this point.

Parental control and Dock settings

Please Help : my son's sessions are under parental control but open to set dock preferences and allowed to use System Preferences as far as settings are opened for them.
But anyway, one has Questions marks in place of applications shortcuts, and the other one loose his shortcuts.
Even if we put back the applications shortcuts they want and are allowed of course, we loose evry things after closing and openning the session. Many other settings are no saved also
Why
Looks like Snow leopard is something that we could call a M... ?????
Thank for help.

It works well if they are allwed to run the application they choose.
In fact, I don't know the origin of this trouble, but I did trash their dock preferences plist file
and I reshape it their after, and it works well now.
I still have one other problem, which looks like the previous but a bit different:
When they add a shortcut on the left part of the finder window, done through finder preferences, like adding the house of their home folder,
it doesn't stay after leaving and re entering the session.
Do you know what could happen ?
Thanks

Finder and Dock not responding to mouseover

You know how when you right click on a file and mouseover the 'open with' option to get a list of programs that are associated with the file type?
That stopped working on all of these type of menus, including the 'services' option that every programs top upper left dropdown gives you.
Also, and probably related, the dock does not hide and seek anymore, unless I switch to a different space, then it works for a second and then stops coming out of hiding.
It does the same thing when using the trackpad.
It may have to do with the latest update or X11.
Any ideas on this would be helpful.
Thanks
10.5.5
Macbook Pro (2.2ghz)

1.
-try to relaunch the finder, see if that works
2.
-move ~/Library/Preferences/ to a NewFolder
-log out/in, try to reproduce the issue
-if the issue is gone, move back the files in NewFolder to ~/Library/Preferences/ without replacing when asked

Strange icons behavior on Finder and Dock

Hi!
I’ve purchased a new MacBook and am in the process of transforming my old iBook G4 into a sort of netbook for Web and iWork but am having some strange problems.
This notebook served me very well for several years but I decide to clean it after the migration of all my content to the new MacBook.
First I formatted and reinstalled Leopard on it. Then I performed all the OS online updates and finally installed iWork/iLife and also performed the online updates for these Apps. After that I activated MobileMe, imported all my data and began to download Apps like Evernote, Skype, etc.
After downloading some Apps I started to place their icons on the Dock but for some reason they simple disappeared after some seconds. Went to the web and found some tips to delete the Dock "plist" and some other files. Did that, perform a restart, but that didn’t work for me.
Since everything was new I decide to create a new user and test the Dock. It worked fine in the new user (without MobileMe activated) but then some other strange thing happened. The icons of installed Apps are not appearing on the Finder, though they were there in the deleted user. If I search for them with Spotlight they are there (in the Application folder!) and I can even drag them to the Dock, but for some reason they are not in the Finder window itself.
I remember selecting “install in all users” when installing all the Apps, so this cannot be the problem. Other interesting thing to notice is that if I search for a App with Spotlight, drag it to another place (out of the Application folder) and then move it back to the Application folder, the icon appears on the Finder window.
My questions are: Does anyone know what can be happening? Should I start all over reinstalling Leopard?
Thanks!

vladcampos wrote:
Hi!
I’ve purchased a new MacBook and am in the process of transforming my old iBook G4 into a sort of netbook for Web and iWork but am having some strange problems.
This notebook served me very well for several years but I decide to clean it after the migration of all my content to the new MacBook.
First I formatted and reinstalled Leopard on it. Then I performed all the OS online updates and finally installed iWork/iLife and also performed the online updates for these Apps. After that I activated MobileMe, imported all my data and began to download Apps like Evernote, Skype, etc.
After downloading some Apps I started to place their icons on the Dock but for some reason they simple disappeared after some seconds.
this is a very common mobileme issue caused by corupt sync data. turn off and reset mobileme syncing
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1497
Went to the web and found some tips to delete the Dock "plist" and some other files. Did that, perform a restart, but that didn’t work for me.
Since everything was new I decide to create a new user and test the Dock. It worked fine in the new user (without MobileMe activated) but then some other strange thing happened. The icons of installed Apps are not appearing on the Finder,
I don't understand what you mean by this.
though they were there in the deleted user. If I search for them with Spotlight they are there (in the Application folder!) and I can even drag them to the Dock, but for some reason they are not in the Finder window itself.
which finder window?
I remember selecting “install in all users” when installing all the Apps, so this cannot be the problem. Other interesting thing to notice is that if I search for a App with Spotlight, drag it to another place (out of the Application folder) and then move it back to the Application folder, the icon appears on the Finder window.
My questions are: Does anyone know what can be happening? Should I start all over reinstalling Leopard?
Thanks!

Finder and Dock Failing

After I've been logged in for awhile, without fail I will suddenly not be able to switch applications using the Dock or Command-Tab. The Dock will no longer animate and relaunching the finder does nothing. Eventually the finder will run very slowly then stop responding and I have to restart. Everything is then fine until it starts again. Any ideas?
Thanks

Euglenas:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Try deleting the Dock .plist (Go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.dock.plist and drag the .plist to the desktop, then restart.) The computer will create a new .plist file in Preferences.
Let me know if this helps.
Good luck.
cornelius
Message was edited by: cornelius

Problems with 10.8.2 and Dock Settings

I just upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 (directly from Lion) and am now having problems with my dock hiding automatically despite the settings being configured correctly so that it doesn't automatically hide.
It seems to have something to do with launching/using Safari.
Using a 2009 Macbook Pro with Intel Core 2 Duo processor. 4GB of RAM.
Anyone know anything?

I should note that I can go back into settings and check then uncheck the "automatically hide" box and it shows up as normal...but then if I relaunch Safari, it hides again.
Bizarre.

Help: computer and program settings mysteriously set to default...

Note: I did not rename my home directory at any point, even by accident.
Sequence of events: restarted Firefox after it crashed, and saw that all my bookmarks were missing. Shortly after, I restarted iTunes, and saw that all my content was gone (the files were still on my hard drive, though). I then restarted my computer, and saw that my desktop files were gone, and that the wallpaper and dock settings were back on default. I still have all my files, but they're not in the same places anymore.
Any idea how/why this happened? How do I fix this? Every solution I've come accross has to do with renaming my home directory, but I'm pretty sure that's not the cause of this...

Hmmm, did anyone else have access to it on that day? It seems it got created when it went missing.
Was it left on that day? Any Animals around?
I'm thinking you should make a new Admin user & move the folders in /Library/Documentation/User Guides And Information.localized/Users/danielmills to the new admin, then use
BatchMod, it's much better/easier than the Finder for recursive Permission changes...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/644
To change all the Rights to the new Admin User.

Multiple Find and Replace

I have a set of 8 Find and Replace Settings in DW that I need
to perform on one file all the time. I don't know of any way to get
them all to run at the click of a button. These actions won't
record in the command recorder.
Is there a way to write an extension that would perform these
Find and Replace Commands at one click?
Can someone please help me with this extension?
Also if there is a way for me to make each of these find and
replace settings a button in the object panel it would be ok also,
that way I can choose which ones I want to perform.
Thanks in advance.

I have a set of 8 Find and Replace Settings in DW that I need
to perform on one file all the time. I don't know of any way to get
them all to run at the click of a button. These actions won't
record in the command recorder.
Is there a way to write an extension that would perform these
Find and Replace Commands at one click?
Can someone please help me with this extension?
Also if there is a way for me to make each of these find and
replace settings a button in the object panel it would be ok also,
that way I can choose which ones I want to perform.
Thanks in advance.

Cannot reinstate catalog after returning PC (Windows 7) to factory settings (because of worm infection). Catalog was backed up on external drive but not using PSE backup facility. Cannot find and *.tly file. Is this hopeless?

Cannot reinstate catalog after returning PC (Windows 7) to factory settings (because of worm infection). Catalog was backed up on external drive but not using PSE backup facility. Cannot find and *.tly file. Is this hopeless?

If you made backups of all of your photos and your catalog file using some third-party method (i.e. not using the PSE catalog backup command), then you should be able to restore everything.
Step 1. Put the photos in the EXACT SAME LOCATION as before. For example, if they were in subfolders of C:\Users\<username>\Documents, then they must go into the exact same subfolders of C:\Users\<username>\Documents.
Step 2. Move the catalog file to wherever you want it to be, and then double-click on it.

I cannot figure out how to make the text larger on an incoming email. The finger method doesn't work and I cannot find any toolbar with which to do it. I could find nothing in settings also. Plese help and thank you.

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Hi there,
Download a piece of software called TinkerTool - that might just solve your problem. I have used it myself to change the system fonts on my iMac. It is software and not an app.
Good wishes,
John.

HT201304 Hi! My My mom bought me an iPhone 5 and I have a problem with my facetime I cant find it! Cant find it in settings and restrictions. She bought this in Bahrain both my iPhone and she ipad mini and she has facetime on her. What should I do?

Hi! My My mom bought me an iPhone 5 and I have a problem with my facetime. I cant find it! Cant find it in settings and restrictions. I remember when she gave me this I see facetime in settings and after a couple of days its gone! She bought this in Bahrain both my iPhone and her iPad Mini. And I'm just wondering why she has facetime and why mine is missing? Please help! My iMessage is perfectly working. I lived in the Philippines

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