[X4U] Software preferences not taking

[Jim Elmore]

For some reason, and I'm clueless, iTunes wasn't writing the files  
"com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist" and "com.apple.iTunes.plist" in ~/ 
Library/Preferences. I discovered this by logging in as a fresh user,  
running iTunes, and seeing what changed. It took some manual  
permission changing, but I was able to copy those files from that  
fresh user over to me and now it works fine.

Jim Elmore
(918) 688-6417



On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:32 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Jim Elmore wrote:
>
>> Since upgrading to iTunes 6 (I had some troubling doing the  
>> install), I can no longer set preferences for iTunes. Every time  
>> it launches it acts like new software and any change I make to  
>> preferences does not stick. My music library is okay, but I  
>> suspect something is wrong with System/Library. Any clues about  
>> how to proceed?
>
> That's a typical result if the app can't rewrite the preference  
> file. The usual culprits are a full hard drive or bad permissions  
> (use Repair Permissions in Disk Utility). At least I hope its that  
> simple.
>
> -Mike
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