Reset Preferences

djbuddha

Searched the forum and found a way to reset preferences for ME pre-3.0 I was messing with wireless webcam overlay options and I uninstalled a driver. Looks like ME is trying to load that driver on startup and it gets stuck in a pinwheel lol. How do I reset the preferences? I searched for a preference file to delete and couldn't find when I was searching sub folders within ~/Library Any help is appreciated lol. Need it back in time for a gig on Tuesday lol. Otherwise ME is running flawlessly hahaha

Nick

If you want to reset the Video Input settings, simply close MixEmergency, then delete the file: ~/Movies/MixEmergency/VideoInput.xml

djbuddha

Didn't work, still pinwheeling. Any other suggestions?

Nick

Can you run MixEmergency, wait until it is pinwheeling, then: 1) Open the Terminal Application 2) Enter the following command, press enter/return, and then wait for it to complete: sample MixEmergency -file ~/Desktop/mixemergency_sample.log 3) E-mail me the "mixemergency_sample.log" file that has been created on your Desktop (you can e-mail this to support@inklen.com )

Nick

And in the worst case... (after you've done the sampling above, so that I can figure out what it is): 1) Rename (or delete) the folder named MixEmergency that is in your Movies folder 2) In the Terminal application: defaults delete com.inklen.MixEmergency This should reset all of your MixEmergency Preferences and settings to the default state.

djbuddha

Followed the steps above still pinwheeling ... I'm seriously confused

djbuddha

Interesting update (for those with this issue). Turns out Nick was pointing to the Mobiola Webcam program. Which I uninstalled (using their uninstaller script). At first it didn't work, I then reset my PRAM & SMC and then when I loaded ME it just worked and everything was reset to default! Awesome stuff, thanks Nick!

djbuddha

Hey Nick! .. Problem came up again, can I e-mail you another log? (I'm wondering if there's another process that's causing this issue).

Nick

(For those interested: it was another webcam program causing issues)