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Mac OS X keeps resetting
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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 83586" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>You know, this has absolutely nothing to do with PRAM. "RESET THE PRAM!" seems to have become the first-round solution to everything on the forum.</p><p></p><p>PRAM stores very, very little information. Zapping the PRAM has been part of the standard Mac troubleshooting bag of tricks for decades, but it's sort of a last resort cure-all. In all the time I've used a Mac, it's actually been helpful maybe twice. It's a bit of voodoo, it usually does nothing, but sometimes iit works when nothing else does.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194" target="_blank">http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>In this case, I'd suggest a permissions repair. Settings such as Garett is describing are stored in his user folder, not in PRAM. If a permissions repar fails to fix things, then try creating a new user account and moving your documents over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 83586, member: 4134"] You know, this has absolutely nothing to do with PRAM. "RESET THE PRAM!" seems to have become the first-round solution to everything on the forum. PRAM stores very, very little information. Zapping the PRAM has been part of the standard Mac troubleshooting bag of tricks for decades, but it's sort of a last resort cure-all. In all the time I've used a Mac, it's actually been helpful maybe twice. It's a bit of voodoo, it usually does nothing, but sometimes iit works when nothing else does. [url]http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194[/url] In this case, I'd suggest a permissions repair. Settings such as Garett is describing are stored in his user folder, not in PRAM. If a permissions repar fails to fix things, then try creating a new user account and moving your documents over. [/QUOTE]
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