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dirtymouse
Nov 29, 2003, 08:54 AM
When VM space is low, and everything starts to play up,
Pathfinder core dumps (as you'd expect), but it manages
to reset its preferences back to factory. They become corrupt
and i have to restore from backup or worse, reset them all up again.

Yes, i know, i should have more space. The finder does the same as well, so maybe that is beyond your control.

Perhaps an emergency preferences lock and/or alert dialogue would help..

Steve Gehrman
Nov 29, 2003, 05:45 PM
The prefs reseting problem is a bug in OS X. Nothing I can do about it.