The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue….
I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message…
/System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/PreferenceSyncClient –sync [...]
It’s not a dictionary? Well, that’s right! My preferences aren’t a dictionary….
Updated 10/27/2009, with a potential solution…
Updated 02/13/2010, with a solution…
Seriously though, if you see the following in your console log:
9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary.
9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary.
9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist [...]
