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I have a problem importing video into Lightroom 4.4 on Mac OS X 10.9.4, and the problem goes away if I test with a brand new user account. I'm trying to recreate this virgin state in my main user account by deleting all the Lightroom preferences. But so far I haven't been able to ferret out all the places Lightroom stores preferences. Here's what I'm deleting so far (all relative to my home directory):
"Library/Application Support/Adobe" folder
"Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Lightroom4.plist" file (actually tried all com.adobe.* files)
"Pictures/Lightroom" directory (catalog, etc)
"Library/Caches/com.adobe.Lightroom4" directory
"Library/Caches/Adobe" directory
Lightroom menu => Preferences => File Handling => Video Cache Settings => "Purge Cache" button
Even after deleting all that, Lightroom menu => Preferences => General items still persist (e.g. the "Automatically check for updates" checkbox and the two completion sounds), my recent catalogs in File => Open Recent still persist, and my video import problem still persists. I believe I've covered all the files listed here, so there must be some other place where Lightroom is storing preferences. What am I missing? Thanks in advance!

Thanks John R. Ellis, but I used that reference and deleted all the preference files listed there (see original post). Some preferences persist even still. I believe there must be some files missing from that list? Or there's some other way that my preferences are sticking around?
I'll try to change the title to be more clear about that. Thanks in advance for any insight.
(--edit-- I can't change the title of the original post...)

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