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<blockquote data-quote="Inabsentia" data-source="post: 1255437" data-attributes="member: 190680">Hmm... as an avid user of dropbox, parallels and utorrent, I can safely say it wouldn't be those programs. I'm rather paranoid when operating on wifi and have always made sure I am not sharing anything if I don't intend to... anyways it looks like something is modifying your permissions. I am not sure about logmein though, but I am familiar with what it does. one thing you could try to test this theory is by making a new account. try to replicate the problem through that account. You could also try this method:Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications&gt;Utilities, highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop:/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plistnow, restart and try to config sharing again. see if that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inabsentia, post: 1255437, member: 190680"] Hmm... as an avid user of dropbox, parallels and utorrent, I can safely say it wouldn't be those programs. I'm rather paranoid when operating on wifi and have always made sure I am not sharing anything if I don't intend to... anyways it looks like something is modifying your permissions. I am not sure about logmein though, but I am familiar with what it does. one thing you could try to test this theory is by making a new account. try to replicate the problem through that account. You could also try this method: Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop: /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist /Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist now, restart and try to config sharing again. see if that helps. [/QUOTE]

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