wrong date all over the place

[Macmarty]

Do you have any ideas how to fix a wrong date showing up in Mail, iTunes, iSync. It seems that all apple application are taking on the date 01/06/06.
I had formatted my drive and installed 10.4.4 fresh. I only used the transfer wizard to get all my data back and the problem seems to stick so it must be some .plist or something like that which is corrupt. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Marty

 

[dmetzcher]

Doesn't sound like a plist file, because you reformatted the drive before you reinstalled the OS. All the files would have been removed. Have you tried changing the date/time via System Preferences?

 

[jbarley]

I had formatted my drive and installed 10.4.4 fresh. I only used the transfer wizard to get all my data back and the problem seems to stick so it must be some .plist or something like that which is corrupt. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Marty

Doesn't sound like a plist file, because you reformatted the drive before you reinstalled the OS. All the files would have been removed. Have you tried changing the date/time via System Preferences?

Is it not possible Macmarty imported the corrupt file when he reloaded his data onto the newly formatted drive?

jb.

 

[dmetzcher]

Is it not possible Macmarty imported the corrupt file when he reloaded his data onto the newly formatted drive?

jb.

Yes, it's entirely possible. I didn't read his post properly. I didn't see that he imported his old data back in after the fresh install. Sorry about that.

Trash the plist files for all the apps that have the problem. Someone else, in another post, had a different issue and said that trashing all the plist files in the directory fixed several apps that would no longer run, but trashing all my plists at the same time wouldn't really tell me which app had or caused the problem, and then, what if it happens again later.

Try creating a new user account, log into it, and see how the apps behave, maybe?