{"id":2490,"date":"2010-02-13T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2010-02-13T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T08:34:10","slug":"preference-plist-was-not-a-dictionary-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/preference-plist-was-not-a-dictionary-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Preference plist was NOT a dictionary — solved?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The full post on this is here<\/a>, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue….<\/p>\n

I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… \u00c2\u00a0The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message…<\/p>\n

\/System\/Library\/CoreServices\/PreferenceSyncClient.app\/Contents\/MacOS\/PreferenceSyncClient –sync –periodic<\/p>\n

and the next command will display all the files that have any array in it…<\/p>\n

egrep ‘^<array>’ ~\/Library\/Preferences\/*<\/p>\n

I do not suggest deleting these files, instead move them to a different directory. \u00c2\u00a0For example, my iTunes preferences was detected as a file in question… \u00c2\u00a0As well as the iCal alarmscache file…. \u00c2\u00a0And neither application was indicating or showing any issues… \u00c2\u00a0So move the file to a different location, and test to ensure that you are not receiving a false positive….<\/p>\n

egrep just does a pattern match, so it just scanning the files for “<array>” being found at the beginning of a line. \u00c2\u00a0I hope to have this confirmed as a solution in a few hours, when I don’t see this error message in the log file any longer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"