Preferences are 'stuck in time'

[thumpinc]

Hi - Something is screwy with my weathercat preferences.
First, every time I reboot my machine I have to go through a 'version upgrade backup' that requires me clicking a dialog. This keeps weathercat from running automatically on startup which is a real drag. Particularly if the power on the machine cycles and I dont get to it for a few days.
Second, if I make changes to things like imagery preferences they go back to default after I restart my machine.
Whats weird is that the prefs dont all go back to defaults. Custom settings I made a few versions back are still set for what I had - its just new changes to the prefs seem to get rolled back every time I restart.

I searched the forum but couldnt find this being covered previously. I do apologize if I missed it somehow. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Blicj11]

Welcome to the Forum!

Sounds like your Preferences file is corrupt. If you are running on Yosemite, this file has been known to become corrupt and when that happens, bizarre things happen to WeatherCat. Try this:

• Make sure you know what your critical settings are, so you can rebuild your preferences
• Quit WeatherCat
• Move ~/library/preference/com.trixology.weathercat.plist to the trash (where ~ is your user home folder)
• Empty the trash
• Restart your computer
• Restart WeatherCat

After you get it working properly, read this thread to save you some time next time:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=1525.msg12799#msg12799

[elagache]

Dear thumpinc, Blick, and WeatherCat fans,

Let me also welcome you to the forum!

Adding to Blick's suggestion. if you have any sort of backups (like Time Machine,) you might be able to restore your corrupted file from an earlier back up.  If you try to do this, shutdown WeatherCat first, reboot your computer and only then try to restore the file.  Then reboot one more time before attempting to run WeatherCat.  The problem with Yosemite is that it has a preference file caching system.  Rebooting forces the caching software to go back to the actual file.  I'm not sure the first reboot is absolutely necessary, but it is a precaution.

Cheers, Edouard