itermmacosplistpreferences
My changes to the preferences in iTerm2 are always reset after a reboot. They will survive a logout, but after a reboot everything is back to the previous state. I checked ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist and my user is file owner and also has write access. Does anybody know how to fix this?
I remember reading that Yosemite is protecting plist files somehow. Could this be the cause? I'm on 10.10.4.
Perhaps you should try resetting the SMC, as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
I think the confusion may be in this dialog:
Unchecking it works for the current restart but the next time it comes up its checked. It has a default state which doesn't seem to have a control in system preferences and may be getting mixed up with this related but different control:
No doubt others here will know more about this than I do but I understand how a new user might be confused.
Best Answer
Well. I did not find the cause for the issue (although it was quite obviously some file permissions problem). But this is how I fixed it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plistto the Desktop~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plistin an editor