Originally Posted By: ryck
In the Preferences folder there are some peculiarly-named folders, all of which are empty.

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4ó‰èrb
ϧ‰èrb (3 of these)
îë‰èrb (2 of these)
ú¨‰èrb (3 of these)

I mention these in case they are a source of odd behaviour.

Originally Posted By: Virtual1
That is hard drive directory corruption. Run disk utility and verify the disk. There may be actual data damage that cannot be repaired without a reinstall.

I ran two verifications, the Partition Map and the Volume but both came up with "appears to be OK".

Could those oddball folders be some frick and frack from a previously unadvisable installation that's since been removed?

Could the two "appears to be okay" results be because I did a DiskWarrior directory rebuild about a week ago?

Last edited by ryck; 11/10/16 03:29 PM.
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