Preferences Errors

[mifty12]

Hi Guys,

I hav ejust switched form my mid 2011 Imac to a new machine a 2020 21.5 iMac. All is operating fine with the exception of preferences. I keep getting Preference Error notifications. First noticed this with Time Machine a is had an error come up regarding Time Machine back up even though at the time I could see Time machine was backing ups at the time. This error occurs no matters what preference I select. Any idea as to why this is happening.?

For information I set up new machine using migration assistant which went fine and time machine back ups are made to an external drive.

Cheers

Justin.

 

[mifty12]

Hi Guys, right, I looke don the web and there was a solution to delete the systempref.plist which I did and restarted and now all seems fine although it doesn't look as though there is now a plist of prefs in the library files, is that an issue or would the replacement plist have been dropped elsewhere?

 

[Fishrrman]

If deleting the prefs (plist) file worked for you...

... then I'd consider the problem solved (at least for now), and wouldn't trouble myself with it further.