On the Text pane of Keyboard preferences, shortened texts disappeared, not remembering anything

Question

Hey there, I'm not really sure when this happened, but sometimes after the update to 10.9.3, all the text shorteners I had set-up in the Text Pane of the Keyboard Preferences, have disappeared!
Even worse, when I try to set up other shorteners, nothing sticks. As soon as I leave the pane, and I come back to it, whatever texts I just added, disappear again.
Did this happen to anyone else, or is it just me?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Some idiot programmer or project manager decided that Mavericks users don't need those any longer. The only way to put them back is to muck around with each user's hidden .GlobalPreferences.plist file stored in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/. You have to add this to that plist file. It might be that your plist is corrupt. In that case, move it to the Desktop, log out and back in. That should put down a default version, but that's just a WAG.
NSUserReplacementItems =     (
            on = 1;
            replace = "(c)";
            with = "\\U00a9";
            on = 1;
            replace = "(r)";
            with = "\\U00ae";
            on = 1;
            replace = "(p)";
            with = "\\U2117";
            on = 1;
            replace = TM;
            with = "\\U2122";
            on = 1;
            replace = "c/o";
            with = "\\U2105";
            on = 1;
            replace = "...";
            with = "\\U2026";
            on = 1;
            replace = "1/2";
            with = "\\U00bd";
            on = 1;
            replace = "1/3";
            with = "\\U2153";
            on = 1;
            replace = "2/3";
            with = "\\U2154";
            on = 1;
            replace = "1/4";
            with = "\\U00bc";
            on = 1;
            replace = "3/4";
            with = "\\U00be";
            on = 1;
            replace = "1/8";
            with = "\\U215b";
            on = 1;
            replace = "3/8";
            with = "\\U215c";
            on = 1;
            replace = "5/8";
            with = "\\U215d";
            on = 1;
            replace = "7/8";
            with = "\\U215e";
            on = 1;
            replace = teh;
            with = the;