Restoring preference pane access Last week, we mentioned an Apple KB article that cited a problem where "Mac Help Cannot Open System Preferences Panes." In some cases, users may have trouble opening ...

Sometimes OS X works in mysterious ways. Take, for instance, the matter of user preferences. In some cases, we get full control over the many things one can do with an application. TextEdit has about ...

Energy Saver preferences not remembered We've confirmed, in-house, a bug that causes Energy Saver to forget scheduled shutdown and startup times if authentication is used to preserve the settings.

One of my favorite applications for the traditional Mac operating system was Action Files from Power On Software. The main reason I loved it was that I could rename files or move them to the trash ...