Property List files damaged

Have been having sporadic problems lately running Leopard (sluggish performance, LONG startup times that can exceed 10 MINUTES !!, etc.). After running Disk Warrior vers. 4.1, it detected 5 Property List files that were damaged and could not be repaired. All of them were either in my user account or the HD Library's Preferences Folder.
Can I safely trash all of these damaged Property List files and reboot?
Also, when I use Leopard's Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions, I get a message that 4 SUID files have been modified and will not be repaired. ???
Any help or guidance regarding these problems would be appreciated. Thanks.

SierraVista wrote:
Have been having sporadic problems lately running Leopard (sluggish performance, LONG startup times that can exceed 10 MINUTES !!, etc.). After running Disk Warrior vers. 4.1, it detected 5 Property List files that were damaged and could not be repaired. All of them were either in my user account or the HD Library's Preferences Folder.
Can I safely trash all of these damaged Property List files and reboot?
yes.
Also, when I use Leopard's Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions, I get a message that 4 SUID files have been modified and will not be repaired. ???
most of those can be safely ignored. Check this [link|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US] to see if your messages are mentioned as harmless.
Any help or guidance regarding these problems would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
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Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
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AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.07 - SDK 10.6 Support
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Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.145 - SDK 10.6 Outdated! Update
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I don't think it is related to your problem, but just so you know, you should only run applications from the Applications folder. There are some low-level interactions between the system and software that may be broken if applications are installed elsewhere. I know this is true for help. It could be true about other things as well. If you need to, you can use the Applications folder in your home directory instead.
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bplist00ß^P^V^A^B^C^D^E^F^G^H
^K^L^M^N^O^P^Q^R^S^T^U^V^W^X^Y^Z^[^\^]^^^_ !"$%&'()'+,^[\CFBundleNameWDTXcodeYDTSDKName_^P^XNSHumanReadableCopyrightZDTSDKBuild_^P^YCFBundleDevelopmentRegion_^P^OCFBundleVersi on_^P^SBuildMachineOSBuild^DTPlatformName_^P^SCFBundlePackageType_^P^ZCFBundleShortVersionString_^P^ZCFBundleSupportedPlatforms_^P^]CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion_^P^RCFBundleE xecutableZDTCompiler_^P^PMinimumOSVersion_^P^RCFBundleIdentifier^UIDeviceFamily_^P^QDTPlatformVersion\DTXcodeBuild_^P^QCFBundleSignature_^P^ODTPlatformBuildYConnectIQT0611[iph oneos8.1o^P-^@C^@o^@p^@y^@r^@i^@g^@h^@t^@ ^@©^@ ^@2^@0^@1^@5^@ ^@G^@a^@r^@m^@i^@n^@.^@ ^@A^@l^@l^@ ^@r^@i^@g^@h^@t^@s^@ ^@r^@e^@s^@e^@r^@v^@e^@d^@.V12B411RenQ1V14C109Xiphoneos TBNDLS1.0¡#XiPhoneOSS6.0YConnectIQ_^P"com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0S8.1_^P^Tcom.garmin.ConnectIQ¡*^P^AW6A2008aT????^@^H^@7^@D^@L^@V^@q^@|^@<98>^@ª^@À^@Ï^@å^A^B^A^_^A?^AT^ A_^Ar^A<87>^A<96>^Aª^A·^AË^AÝ^Aç^Aì^Aø^BU^B\^B_^Ba^Bh^Bq^Bv^Bz^B|^B<85>^B<89>^B<93>^B¸^B¼^BÓ^BÕ^B×^Bß^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@-^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^Bä
I guess it is a normal format but my system seems to be unable to read binary plist ?
I tried some stuff with plutil
plutil -lint Info.plist
Info.plist: Unexpected character b at line 1
Same for convert
plutil -convert xml1 Info.plist
Info.plist: Property List error: Unexpected character b at line 1 / JSON error: JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set.
I also try to download a fresh version of the connectIQ SDK and no changes.
Any idea ?
Thanks

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I have configured FTP adapter successfully by giving the following details,
useSftp –
username –
password -
host -
port –
authenticationType –
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Complete fault
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<input>
<Invoke1_FileListing_InputVariable>
<part name="Empty">
<empty/>
</part>
</Invoke1_FileListing_InputVariable>
</input>
<fault>
<bpelFault>
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<part name="code">
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</bindingFault>
</bpelFault>
</fault>
<faultType>
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May 9, 2013 4:32:00
Edited by: BK574 on May 9, 2013 2:47 PM

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<adapter-config name="List" adapter="FTP Adapter" wsdlLocation="List.wsdl" xmlns="http://platform.integration.oracle/blocks/adapter/fw/metadata">
<connection-factory location="eis/ftp/FTPService" UIincludeWildcard="*.*"/>
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Edited by: BK574 on May 10, 2013 6:30 AM
Edited by: BK574 on May 10, 2013 6:31 AM

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we are using List files operation in one of the SOA composite which lists all files available in the directory. what we observed files are not listing as for the timestamps.
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Hi,
If you are facing the 'installer file damaged' error on installing AdobeStory desktop application please follow the following steps:
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- double click to install.
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Before installing, please make sure that you have uninstalled Story form your system. (i.e. move Adobe Story from Applications folder to Trash)
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Mac OS X
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Well, this has not worked out well.
During debugging when I read the plist as a NSDictionary, immediately converted it to a mutable dictionary, and then tried writing it back, the return value is NO indicating the file was not written because all the objects are not property list objects (but I started with a valid plist?!?)
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<plist version="1.0">
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<key>amount</key>
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<dict>
<key>amount</key>
<integer>1</integer>
</dict>
<key>2008-09-18</key>
<dict>
<key>amount</key>
<integer>2</integer>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
// read the data from the plist
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[mutableEventsDict addEntriesFromDictionary:dictEvents];
// now try writing back the same plist
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