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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1763658" data-attributes="member: 131855">I'm going to go put on my dunce cap now and sit in the corner. I should have mentioned that. For the benefit of others reading the thread I should mention that this can be done without resorting to Terminal commands if you have a bootable clone of your system. Boot from the clone then go to your internal drive, find those preference files and delete them, then reboot the mac from your internal drive. I should have mentioned this earlier simply as a correction: If your Mac is running you are using the Finder. Most, and perhaps all, of the file operations (copying, moving deleting, etc) run through the Finder at some point. Unless of course they are being completed through the Terminal.Edit: This includes tasks which the user did not specifically initiate that run in the background such as checking to see what peripherals (hard drives etc( are still attached to the Mac.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1763658, member: 131855"] I'm going to go put on my dunce cap now and sit in the corner. I should have mentioned that. For the benefit of others reading the thread I should mention that this can be done without resorting to Terminal commands if you have a bootable clone of your system. Boot from the clone then go to your internal drive, find those preference files and delete them, then reboot the mac from your internal drive. I should have mentioned this earlier simply as a correction: If your Mac is running you are using the Finder. Most, and perhaps all, of the file operations (copying, moving deleting, etc) run through the Finder at some point. Unless of course they are being completed through the Terminal. Edit: This includes tasks which the user did not specifically initiate that run in the background such as checking to see what peripherals (hard drives etc( are still attached to the Mac. [/QUOTE]

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