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Title: Login Items Disappear...
Post by: Mayo on October 31, 2008, 10:54:22 PM

This morning I came into my home office to get Pandora running (recently we have been listening to the Choral, Baroque Period station during the morning hours.) I immediately noticed that all of my login items were not running.  I repaired permissions but I didn't expect it to help... it was just the easiest thing to get going before I had my morning coffee.  I later ran DiskWarrior and still No Joy.

I have no idea which preference file contains the login items so I could try copying the file from my nightly backup and I could not locate the appropriate file, so I guess that I will have to fix thing manually... Has anyone else experienced this who can enlighten me as to why it occurred?

Title: Login Items Disappear...
Post by: krissel on November 01, 2008, 02:33:38 AM

You didn't have your finger on the Shift key by any chance on startup? That disables login items.

This article describes where the plist is for login items and some ideas for managing them.

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It is stored in a preferences (.plist) file called loginwindow.plist, located in the ~/Library/Preferences folder (i.e., in your Home directory). Note: This is a separate file from the com.apple.loginwindow.plist file, also in the same folder.

http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005091208251414

Title: Login Items Disappear...
Post by: Mayo on November 01, 2008, 11:41:03 AM

Thanks for the info; I reentered my log in items manually... Nope, I didn't have my finger on the Shift key!

Title: Login Items Disappear...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on November 01, 2008, 03:06:03 PM

So, how's another restart look? Seems the 'shift' key is not stuck down since your posts look normal...
I still say there is an interweb varmit lose in your house!