Dock resets contents after restart

My dock contents reset after I restart.
My monitor settings also reset at restart.
other apps get settings set to defaults after restart.
any suggestions?

26-May-2012 01:59I bought an iMac last October, 21", 4GB standard manufactured settings ram etc. After a few weeks every time I quit an application and go back on it, it returns to its old settings. Whenever I remove a bookmark from the toolbar on Safari and restart it, it returns to the old settings, when ever I restart the computer the dock and background changes towards its original settings. This is starting to get really annoying, and I don't know what to do and I have installed all available updates. Is an issue like this covered in a warranty and do you guys have any ideas on what I should do?

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None of the changes I make to system preference or the dock will hold after restart. I've cleared the RAM, run disk repair and reinstalled the OS. Now what?

None of the changes I make to system preference or the dock will hold after restart. I've cleared the RAM, run disk repair and reinstalled the OS. Now what?

MobileMe closed on July 31, 2012.
It is true that the only way to sync your Mac with iCloud is to upgrad. You need to be running OS X Lion 10.7.2 or higher in order to sync your Mac with iCloud. At this point, you can upgrade directly to OS X Mountain Lion from the version of OS X you are now running (10.6.8). You can purchase and download the Mountain Lion upgrade from the Mac App Store for $19.99. After upgrading you will see iCloud in System Preferences. This guide explains how to sync your Mac with iCloud after upgrading: http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html.
Once all your devices are signed into the same iCloud account and you have turned on your iCloud data syncing, you will be able to keep them all in sync using iCloud. You will still have to sync with iTunes to manage your iTunes media such as music, movies, podcasts, etc. You will have the option to either continue backing up automatically with your computer when you sync with iTunes, or to back up your iOS devices automatically to iCloud every 24 hours (as long as they are connected to wifi and your chargers).

MacbookPro Resets itself after Restart

So I just got a brand new MBP C2D 2.16 15" 2 days ago. After adding all my favorite internet sites, my personal folder with pictures,music, etc. I restart my computer because Ichat is lagging badly and find out that my personal folder has been completely wiped off, the favorities on safari that I deleted are now back on.....
I rebooted MacOS X onto the drive again completely erasing everything and starting fresh. When I get back to the same place before with all my favorites added, my personal folder uploaded I tried installing parallels and I had to restart my computer and find out that again my folder is gone and favorites reset, along with some of the view options I set are also replaced to default settings, ichat was also reset to default...
Any help, before the 2nd time I did repair disk permissions and everything checked out ok and I had the new update both times installed

You didn't happen to rename your Home folder by any chance did you?
If you are the only user of the computer open your Users folder. You should see two folders in there. The User account folder and the Shared Folder. If you see a third folder with two of them looking like they could be your user account folder then one is probably an empty account folder and the other will have your stuff in it.
If your User folder was originally called ChrisB32 for example and you decided you didn't like that and changed it to Chris...well that's a big no no even though OS X will let you do it.
What happens is if you rename that ChrisB32 folder and then try to use a program that accesses the the User folder OS X will determine it is missing and create a new empty one called ChrisB32. Rebooting will cause OS X to boot using the newly created empty ChrisB32 folder and everything will revert to defaults. You settings will be in the Chris folder unseen by OS X.
It is just a guess as to what may be going on. Let me know if you find more than 1 candidate for what could be your User folder.

Apple TV Randomly Deletes Entire Content After Restart

So I just plugged in my Apple TV to power and noticed that the first 30 seconds after the main menu is presented, browsing through the menu was very sluggish. I then proceeded to watch streamed content, and after the movie was done, I noticed that the Apple TV was resyncing everything I had synced to the Apple TV.
This isn't the first time this has happened to me. All I know is that the Apple TV remains linked to my iTunes library but, randomly, deletes content once in a blue moon after unplugging it from power and plugging it back in. Don't know if this is a bug in the system or if I am doing something wrong but, all in all, I'd like to know if any of you know what the heck I'm talking about.

That does not matter. If it does then Apple logic is incorrect (and I am saying this as software engineer and designer with quite alot of expereince in numer of large companies). The software is supposed to be transferred into "buffer" fully before it shows up in system structure. If it overrides the existing data then it HAS TO PROVIDE PROMPT with question to a user as this poses a risk of losing data.
So synching in background should NEVER override file risking corruption on power failure. Do you know how data backup systems work (e.g. storage)? This is not a new discipline and Apple should follow the general rules in implementation of such systems regardless if this is media synching for fun or not. People get involved their money in solutions and toying with solving problems on unreliable solution is not entertainment - listening to music and watching movies is entertainment. We pay for reliable solution that is not wiping out what costs time and money. If they provide unreliable solution then they should provide some info, procedure or perhaps a way for backup. They don't more frequently thses days (comapring to what I saw few years ago) so, I lost already two episodes of TV show that I purchased from their store and I am upset as well.
I rely on Apple TV a lot, but I feel I am wasting my time if company start treating me similarily like other big company (figure out which one) that I left for ALL Apple solutions in 2003.
Advises in manner "do not restart" are not appropriate, because sometimes you do not have control over power outage in your area and system should consider those as well (apart of other things that may delete content accidentally).

Tiger reverts to orginal dock and settings after restart

Every once in awhile Tiger reverts the dock and all my icons back to the original sizes and items. It also makes the icons the default size and bugs the crap out of me. What the heck is going on?

The dock reverts when I have to force restart it (by holding the
power button for 5 seconds.) So...
A hard computer shut down or restart is not good for a hard drive under any platform and having to do so with OS X should be rare. I can't remember the last time I was forced to perform a hard shut down or restart with my PB.
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"Play stereo audio as mono" disabled after restart

I've been using the "Play stero audio as mono" option in Universal Access, but ever time I restart, the setting is disabled. As far as I know, this is the only setting that does this. I also have the "Balance" slider bar all the way to the left in the Sound control panel; this persists through restarts. What can I do to fix this?

Philmac88 wrote:
the setting still resets itself after restarting.
Then I'm stumped. I don't know why or what to do.
You could go around the issue by running a script at login to set this option. Here's a script I found on the net:
--script begins
on run
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activate
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--script ends
(It requires the "Enable access for assistive devices" pref to be enabled.)
Save it as an app in a convenient location (eg, <~/Library/Scripts>), and add it to your Login Items. It will run every time you log back in. Note that this is a toggle—if the preference is on, it will turn it off.

How can I use "undone" after restarting my PC?

I did something stupid in iTunes (no songs are marked anymore). How can I reset it after restarting the Pc?
Thanx

Hi there
Captivate simply records what appears on your computer screen. So the trick is getting the iPad to display on your PC screen. There is an applicaton called Reflector that should allow this.
http://www.airsquirrels.com/reflector/
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Stack contents resetting on computer restart.

The contents of my stacks keeps resetting (not to nothing, but a few items) on computer power on.
The complete contents are still in their appropriate folders.
Killing the dock does not fix the problem.
Not sure what is causing this or how to fix it.
It started occurring after I de-fragmented my disk with drive genius.

It was probably the defrag that caused it. Given today's bigger disks there isn't much use for it, unless you are doing video or music editing. The best way to accomplish this IMO is to clone your system to another drive, erase your drive and clone back. Clean as a whistle with no fragmentation and you don't have to mess with a disk utility that tries to string little beads back together.
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Then restart. This will give you the default Dock, so you'll have to reset yours the way you like it)
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com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
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I have created a second user on my imac (OSX 10.7.1) and applications won't stay in the dock and my preferences default after restart. Anyone else have this problem?

I have created a second user on my iMac (OSX 10.7.1) and applications won't stay in the dock and my preferences default after restart. Everything works fine with the main user. Anyone else have this problem?

Hi again, ;o)
I found this advice in another thread (here), which you might find helpful...
Unregistering the iMac from .Mac syncing and re-registering it (replacing the computer's information with the .Mac information) resolved the issue.
The .Mac sync information was Reset (i.e. recopied in it's entirety) from the MacBook (the 'good' computer) to .Mac prior to unregistering and re-registering the iMac, so a fresh copy of the sync could be loaded from .Mac to the iMac.
I hope this helps the others who have had this problem.
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Art
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After restart, all user settings are gone and reset to defaults

Hi after waking up my iMac from sleep today, it appeared something had gone wrong (apps not responding…notification that my external drives had "not been ejected correctly" etc). I restarted. After restart, and logging back in to my regular user account, all user settings were missing and reset to factory defaults: Desktop reset to the "wave", Dock reset, Download folder missing (grey question mark), Dropbox unable to connect, Safari bookmarks missing (but still on my iPhone-- so it's a local iMac problem, not an issue with iCloud), small things like mouse scrolling prefs reset etc.
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Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear and again when you log in. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don’t do them all at once.
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