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Lion OS cannot write email preferences
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<blockquote data-quote="bratman91" data-source="post: 1292210" data-attributes="member: 198761"><p>I think I have now solved the problem and, for the benefit of anyone else who has a similar problem, I offer the following, admittedly inexpert, diagnosis and remedy. Please feel free to correct anything that is erroneous.</p><p></p><p>The source of the problem seemed to be that an Access Control List (ACL) or lists were somehow introduced to the Library/Preferences folder. This prevented any preferences being saved, but only trying to save the Mail preferences actually resulted in an error message. A clue that ACL were applied to the Preferences file was given by the Disk Utility report when using the Repair Disk Permissions option.</p><p></p><p>Using advice given suggested in the following link,</p><p></p><p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209638?start=0&tstart=0" target="_blank">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209638?start=0&tstart=0</a></p><p></p><p>I opened a terminal and removed the ACL by entering:</p><p></p><p>sudo chmod -RN ~</p><p></p><p>and</p><p></p><p>sudo chown -R `id -un` ~</p><p></p><p></p><p>This seems to have fixed all the problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bratman91, post: 1292210, member: 198761"] I think I have now solved the problem and, for the benefit of anyone else who has a similar problem, I offer the following, admittedly inexpert, diagnosis and remedy. Please feel free to correct anything that is erroneous. The source of the problem seemed to be that an Access Control List (ACL) or lists were somehow introduced to the Library/Preferences folder. This prevented any preferences being saved, but only trying to save the Mail preferences actually resulted in an error message. A clue that ACL were applied to the Preferences file was given by the Disk Utility report when using the Repair Disk Permissions option. Using advice given suggested in the following link, [url]https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209638?start=0&tstart=0[/url] I opened a terminal and removed the ACL by entering: sudo chmod -RN ~ and sudo chown -R `id -un` ~ This seems to have fixed all the problems. [/QUOTE]
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