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Old 03-27-2019, 02:46 AM
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Anyone ever had this? All fine last night, boot up Pro Tools this morning, and all the preferences have been reset - almost like it's deleted the prefs file and created a new one all and my prefs disappeared overnight for no apparent reason.

It's not a showstopper, more kind of irritating.
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Old 03-27-2019, 02:53 AM
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once or twice in the past this has happened to me - it seems to happen to other apps too. I've always seen it as an OS issue. Just keep a rolling backup of your prefs file somewhere.
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Old 03-27-2019, 04:53 AM
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Do either of you run a dual-boot system? I do here and sometimes my usual working boot partition (OSX 10.12.6) will pick up something from the other partition (OSX 10.10.5) in the way of preferences or even my desktop picture.
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Old 03-27-2019, 09:30 AM
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Thanks for the responses. No dual-boot system here, just a fairly standard HD Native (or whatever the blazes it's called nowadays) system.
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Old 03-27-2019, 11:24 AM
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It happened to me recently when I tried to install the Massey L2007 beta.
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Old 03-27-2019, 11:37 AM
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happened twice in the last few months but not sure why. I wasn't installing or changing anything as far as software goes.



Other than the pain of having to re-adjust things I didn't see any other problems.
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Old 03-27-2019, 12:06 PM
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Just keep a rolling backup of your prefs file somewhere.
Always a good idea to keep a backup, though I don't update that backup file after I have an initial pref file in place because prefs can get corrupt and I'd be backing up the corrupt file. I erase the prefs file, get everything back in place, then save a copy of that file where it stays put.
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Anyone ever had this? All fine last night, boot up Pro Tools this morning, and all the preferences have been reset - almost like it's deleted the prefs file and created a new one all and my prefs disappeared overnight for no apparent reason.

It's not a showstopper, more kind of irritating.
Which OS? Mojave by chance?
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Old 03-27-2019, 03:23 PM
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Always a good idea to keep a backup, though I don't update that backup file after I have an initial pref file in place because prefs can get corrupt and I'd be backing up the corrupt file. I erase the prefs file, get everything back in place, then save a copy of that file where it stays put.
Yes that makes a lot of sense.


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Which OS? Mojave by chance?
No I'm still on 10.13.1 because I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to updating the OS.
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Old 03-28-2019, 04:01 AM
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No I'm still on 10.13.1 because I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to updating the OS.
That's why one makes regular clones of one's system so when things go weird recovery is easily possible.
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