Yeah the question is why it happens. I wonder if there's some
extensive information available that covers plists and their
functions. I think I'll report this to Apple so at least if they
aren't aware, they will be and if they are, they'll find some means
to work with the situation. Its a very very ugly situation and one
hell of a show stopper. If there was a means to remove these files
via a script and a means to run the script without speech, that would
be a temporary fix, but I'm not sure how this could be done.
At least someone else has had this experience and I'm not crazy. I
will say that one lesson learned is to evaluate even what the tech
support folks tell you when you call Apple before you run off and do
anything. An archive and install is a means to get around the
problem, but like another tech said who actually knew something about
VO is this was total overkill and unnecessary. The first tech I spoke
to wasn't very helpful and you can bet when I got a survey from
APple, I didn't give him very good marks. I think he just didn't take
the time to look up the information that would have helped resolve
the problem.
Scott
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On Jun 9, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Scott. I've run into this before as well. For a long time, I had
to use a different account on my machine, because I didn't know to
remove those two files. And, so because of that, I now have stuff
scattered over two regular user accounts. But someone on the cocoa
developers list ran into this problem too, and he posted the fix
once he found it. It certainly fixed my problem. And, mine wasn't
a result of a ups issue. It was turning vo off while the machine
was busy and under extreme load. No matter what I did, I couldn't
get it to turn back on again. Vo was just gone on that account.
Very curious, and slightly irritating, but at least there is a work-
around, and now at least I know it, though I've still not
consolidated my two accounts back to one. I kind of like it
actually, so I've just left it alone.
So, perhaps this is another tip I need to toss up on the
softcon.com/mac page. Good to let as many as possible know about it.
Thanks for the reminder, it was several months ago when this
happened, an I'd kind of forgotten about it. (well, not forgotten,
but just not needed, so didn't think about it) you know how it is.
