Thanks for the thought.

I trashed TextEdit's plist and restarted...with no joy, and I followed that with trashing TE's cache (Edit: and restarting), also with no joy.

I just discovered that even opening a new TE doc calls up the password dialog box, but it only takes two "Cancels" as opposed to the four it takes to open a populated doc.

Weirder and weirder!!! confused crazy

Last edited by artie505; 08/27/15 09:03 AM.
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