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My prefs are gone!
Name: trkkazulu Date: May 16, 2005 at 05:07:18 Pacific OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 CPU/Ram: Pismo 400
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Check this out: after weeks of uptime, i tried to send a mail from Mac Mail (the program that comes with OS X) it wouldn't go. Strange. So i force quit Mail and rebooted. When the system came up, the user account had totally reset itself to the default installation settings. All of my Safari bookmarks, mail prefs, everything had vanished. The desktop changed back to the default. The Dock showed only the default applications. When i checked my third party apps like Palm Desktop and such they were untouched. Likewise, my "Admin" account was not bothered. Only my normal user account (to which i have no administrative priveledges assigned) was affected. I looked in the trash and couldn't find any signs of a "prefs" file that might have ended up there. Additionally, after rebooting i noticed that my (dynamically allocated) ip address has changed.
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