Delete user preferences

How do you delete user's preferences in aperture?
I'm suddenly having problems previewing any of my multimedia files in Aperture 3. It's not the library because I have created a new library and the problem remains. If I log in as a new user all is normal.
So anyone knows how to delete the user preferences?
I tried deleting playlists but no luck there
Thank you

Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter ~/Library/Preferences/ as the path, and move everything inside which contains Aperture in its name to the desktop.
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This troubleshooting basics page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3659
reads:
Delete the User Preferences
You can resolve many issues by restoring Soundtrack Pro to its original settings. This will not impact your project files. To reset your Soundtrack Pro user preference settings to their original state:
Quit Soundtrack Pro if it is open.
In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences. Note: The tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
Remove the "com.apple.soundtrackpro.plist" file from the Preferences folder.
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Soundtrack Pro.
Remove the "EffectsCache.plist" file from the Soundtrack Pro folder.
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Soundtrack Pro/Layouts.
Remove the "Soundtrack Pro.saved.moduleLayout" file from the Layouts folder.
Go to ~/Library/Caches.
Remove the "com.apple.audiounits.cache" from the Caches folder.
However, I cannot find any of these files. I fear this means the app is corrupt. Please advise!
Thank you!

This troubleshooting basics page:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3659
reads:
Delete the User Preferences
You can resolve many issues by restoring Soundtrack Pro to its original settings. This will not impact your project files. To reset your Soundtrack Pro user preference settings to their original state:
Quit Soundtrack Pro if it is open.
In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences. Note: The tilde (~) represents your Home folder.
Remove the "com.apple.soundtrackpro.plist" file from the Preferences folder.
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Soundtrack Pro.
Remove the "EffectsCache.plist" file from the Soundtrack Pro folder.
Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Soundtrack Pro/Layouts.
Remove the "Soundtrack Pro.saved.moduleLayout" file from the Layouts folder.
Go to ~/Library/Caches.
Remove the "com.apple.audiounits.cache" from the Caches folder.
However, I cannot find any of these files. I fear this means the app is corrupt. Please advise!
Thank you!

New Macbook Air setup problem with deleting user account

I recently changed from a MBP to a MBA and upon completing my migration data from old mac to new one I had an extra user account. So I have my admin account and a guest account and a third account that I don't want. Upon trying to delete this account it show "deleting user account and home folder" but it has been doing this for more than an hour therefore it will not let me exit system preferences. Any help on this?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "need configuration data ... " However, if both computers are on your network then you should be able to synchronize various files or folders using backup software. However, to start you will need to enable File Sharing on one of the computers.
For help with this select Mac Help from the Finder's Help menu. Search for "file sharing." You should find several links on how to configure it on your computer. Also see Mac 101- File sharing and Tutorial- File sharing in OS X - MacFixIt.
Once file sharing is set up you can then try a backup utility to do the synching. Most backup utilities not only do backups but can also be configured to synchronize files and/or folders. Here are some possibilities:
Backup Software Recommendations
1. Synchronize! Pro X (Commercial)
2. Synk (Backup, Standard, or Pro)
3. Deja Vu (Shareware)
4. Carbon Copy Cloner (Donationware)
5. Data Backup (Commercial)
6. SilverKeeper 2.0 (Freeware)
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8. SyncTwoFolders (Freeware)
9, Data Lore (Commercial - exclusively for network file transfers over Bonjour.)
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.
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Where does WebMail store user preferences

I have enabled WebMail on my server. Each user that logs in is able to change its preference settings at WebMail, e.g. # of msgs. shown per page, etc..
This is okay, but when I delete a user, I guess that there is a config file left somewhere.
Has anybody an idea where WebMail stores the user preferences for each user and how to properly delete them when removing a user from the system ?

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See pdf doc: Properly Deleting OS X 10.4.x Server Mail Users, on following page...
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A 56 gb .dmg file in my deleted user folder

I have a G5 tower running os 10.3 with 150GB of space. I am running out of room on my had drive because I have a file named melindabeck.dmg (my name) in my deleted users file that is 56 GB.
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2. Can I get rid of it without endangering my user folder (admin)?
3. How do I delete it?
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Melinda.. it looks like you created a new user account and then deleted the old user account...if everything is ok with the user account you are using...you can delete the old account (drag it to the Trash) ......which is located at....
HD/Users/Deleted (Folder)
Did you do perform similar procedure such as this....
Accounts<Deleting User .... using System Preferences (p29)
• You must be booted up in your Admin account before attempting this.
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151625
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106256
IMPORTANT: If the user's account is encrypted (FileVault is turned on), turn FileVault off for the user before you delete the account.
• You can not delete your Admin Account using this method.
1. Choose System Preferences from Apple Menu and click "Accounts"
2. Select the user account you want to delete and click the minus button in the lower pane
3. A window will pop up asking you if you're sure this is what you want to do. It also gives you a choice as to what should be done
4. If you click "Delete Immediately", the user account will removed.
5. If you click "OK", the account will be removed, and a disk image will be created of the contents of the deleted user account. In case you want to
re-instate the user,The path is:..... HD/Users/Deleted (folder)
6. Your last option is "Cancel" , if you change you mind.
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User preferences on multiple computers

Mac OSX users: has anyone tried saving and migrating their user preferences for use on another Mac? For instance, let's say I set up my desktop at home to look and function a certain way. Can I easily transfer these same settings to a work computer, assuming the OS is the same? I sometimes work onsite for various companies having consistent prefs would help me be more efficient.

finding folders by size is pretty easy, modification date is a bit harder.
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I will leave it to you to test and modify to delete those folders.
#!/bin/bash
#list all folders larger than 300MB in /Users
#will exclude administrator and Shared
for user in $(ls -1 /Users | grep -v "Shared" | grep -v "administrator")
do
homeSize=$(du -sm /Users/$user | cut -d"/" -f1)
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fi
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Hi Expert,
We ran the given OOTB task "Disable/Delete User After End Date" and the behavior is always delete. How,if possible, to change the behavior to disable?
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In order to change the behavior, you have to set the system manager preference called "Period to Delay User Delete" to something bigger than the task will make the user disabled and will automatically delete them at a future date.

Indesign 2.0.2 unexpectedly quits despite deleting user prefs, etc . . .

I have been using Indesign 2.0.2 on a PowerMac G5 running Mac OSX 10.4.11 for years with no problems and all of a sudden today when I tried to open Indesign 2.0.2, it starts to open and then the " . . . quit unexpectedly . . ." message pops up. I read through the other posts in this forum that were similar and followed the instructions in both but to no avail. Here is what I have tried so far: I tried holding down the Shift+Control+Option+Command keys and then opening Indesign 2.0.2 and the same unexpectedly quit thing happened. I deleted the user preferences, but that did not fix the problem either. I created a new user account in OSX, but was not able to open Indesign 2.0.2 in the new user either, the same thing happened as in my regular user account. I also downloaded and installed the id202_quitfix_all.hqx and followed those instructions, but this did not work. I even uninstalled Indesign 2.0.2 and then reinstalled Indesign 2.0.1 from the original installer CD and then updated to 2.0.2, but the same unexpectedly quit thing happened upon opening the software. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this problem, please let me know. Thanks.

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Security Update 2009-005 (Power PC) Version 1.0
iTunes
QuickTime
Aperture Update
Indesign 2.0.2 has been working fine since the last Software Update until yesterday morning.

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I recently had a deleted user where I needed to recover some emails from.
I restored a copy of the post office, placed this copy to allow direct
access and opened their mailbox using the /ph- switch.
However this user had placed a password on their mailbox. Luckily I was
able to figure out what the password was. However it occured to me that
I wouldn't have known how to clear this password because her mailbox was
"offline".
Does anyone know what I could have done to change/remove the users'
password?
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Edward van der Maas wrote:
> Brian Mantler wrote:
>
>> I recently had a deleted user where I needed to recover some emails
>> from.
>>
>> I restored a copy of the post office, placed this copy to allow
>> direct access and opened their mailbox using the /ph- switch.
>>
>> However this user had placed a password on their mailbox. Luckily I
>> was able to figure out what the password was. However it occured to
>> me that I wouldn't have known how to clear this password because her
>> mailbox was "offline".
>>
>> Does anyone know what I could have done to change/remove the users'
>> password?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> gwcheck | select reset client options and check 'clear user's password'
>
I have now tried this, but it does not seem to clear the user's password.
I have included the gwcheck.log file below.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
================================================== ==============================
===== BEGIN - JOB LOG
================================================== ========
================================================== ==============================
================================================== ==============================
===== TASK LOG - 0 (46b9a715.ckl)
==============================================
================================================== ==============================
Novell GroupWise - GWCHECK - Version 7.0.1
Processed on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 - 11:20 am
Processing information for this run:
Path to PO = E:\post
Post Office= COE
User = testpocoe
Action = Resetting Preferences
Verbose = Yes
Upd DiskSpace= No
Output log = gwchk32.log
GWCHECK user options analysis:
- options are consistent.
STRUCTURAL VERIFICATION of system databases
STRUCTURAL VERIFICATION of database ngwguard.db
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Reading Guardian Database store catalog info
Searching for User/Post Office information for testpocoe
Processing Post Office = COE path = E:\post
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RESETTING user preferences for user database E:\post\ofuser\usergo7.db
- resetting record 41000 - type = ENVIRONMENT
- resetting record 41001 - type = SEND
- resetting record 41002 - type = VIEWS
- resetting record 41018 - type = TRANSACTION
PROCESSING COMPLETED- total processing time: 0:00:01
Processing completed
***** OVERALL STATS FOR THIS RUN *****
Uncorrectable conditions encountered:
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Correctable conditions encountered:
- No problems found
Overall processing time for the entire job: 0:00:03
Accumulated task processing times spent on the job: 0:00:03
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
================================================== ==============================
===== END - JOB LOG
================================================== ==========
================================================== ==============================

After deleting FF preference file, Footers are now located higher on all printed pages, causing some one-page emails to extend to a second page.

I upgraded my Mac OS to 10.6.8 to see if that would solve some of my FF hanging issues. It did not. So I decided to try deleting the preferences file as suggested in the Troubleshooting section to see if that would help. Unfortunately after deleting the prefs.js file per the instructions, on all my printed pages the Footers are now located significantly higher on the page than they used to be. They are located about 3/4" up from the bottom of the page, whereas before they were always located about 1/4" up from the bottom of the page. (Thankfully, the headers are in the same spot as before, 1/4" down from the top of the page.)
I don't understand how this happened to the footer placement in deleting the preferences. The placement/location of the headers and footers is not something that the user can adjust in FF Preferences or in the Printing window as a preference. Only the content of the headers and footers can be modified in the Printing window.
I am stumped as to how this occurred. Is there a way to restore the footer placement back closer to the bottom of the page? The higher location of the footer is causing many of my lengthier one-page emails to have to extend onto a second page which is a waste of paper and file space.

Try resetting the Page Margins to what you were using before deleting the prefs file.

Failed to Get User Preferences

I have 3 scripts online right now for ongoing projects that I'm trying to work on only Adobe Story just updated and now won't log me in. I keep getting the "Failed to get user preferences" error. I need to update a script tonight for a client, then prep one for a recording session tomorrow. Can I get this resolved a.s.a.p. please! My ID is [email protected]
Thanks,
John

Hi, the problem still exists: last two works don't compare anywhere:(
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 05:15:03 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Failed to get user preferences
    Re: Failed to get user preferences
    created by Sandeep (Story team) in Adobe Story - View the full discussion
Hi,
Can you please check the 'deleted' and 'sync issues' folder that shows up in the bottom left of the Story screen. Just click on these folders to see the list of documents. If your file is present in any of them, you can directly recover.
From deleted folder you can just click on the document's options (a triangle shows up when you hover on the document) and click on the triangle and then restore to a project.
If its in sync issues folder, you can delete the document (deletion will just move the document to the deleted folder mentioned above) and then go to deleted folder to restore the document.
If you still face any issue please let us know.
thanks
Sandeep
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Deleted users cause conflicts with new users

If I delete a user in WGM and renove their home folder from the sharepoint, I get a conflict error if I try to create a brand new user with the same name (shortname) as the deleted user/s. I'm not using the Mail service at all in OS X Server.
Where else do I search for user records to purge?
thanks

1. Go to WGM > WGM Menu > Preferences > turn on 'Show all records tab and inspector"
2. Click on the 'target' symblol tab that appears next to the users/groups/computers tab in teh laft-hand, lower pane.
3. Select Users from the pulldown menu under the tabs
Is the shortname you deleted listed here? If so delete from here, then re-add.
hth,
b.

Opening a Deleted User .dmg?

Hello,
I have a number of old employee Deleted User .dmg files. If I ever need to gain access to these, can I "log in" via this user (somehow by mounting the .dmg file first?) or does this .dmg file just act as an "archive" of the user account so I can access the files contained via finder?
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Opening the dmg will provide access to that account's files. Being able to log in to an account requires that there is an entry for that account in the NetInfo database, a subset of which is available in the Accounts pane of System Preferences.
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