‘Interesting’ Mac issue this morning
This morning my MacBook Pro did something odd. Or rather it didn’t do something normal.
This morning I booted up and logged in as normal. My machine is configured to start a whole host of helper applications and a few applications I always fire up in the morning, but this morning the machine booted, I logged in, but no applications started. No helpers, no main applications, nada.
A bit of investigation revealed that a file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist) had been cleared during yesterday’s boot. Why? I have no idea, but it had.
Fortunately I run TimeMachine and the file was easily recovered from yesterday. This saved me from having to remember all the utilities that I start, so good save TimeMachine. Once restored my login behaved as it should and all was once again right with the world.
This all leaves the mystery of why yesterday’s login decided to clear the file, which is frustrating.
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