On 19 avr. 11, at 15:45, Macs R We wrote:

> 
> On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:58 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> 
>> I have an application that behaves weirdly on my account but works fine on 
>> the guest account as well as on a second account on the same machine.
>> 
>> My guess is thus that the problem comes from issues with my local files.
>> 
>> So, I put aside everything in Library that was not required by the system, 
>> rebooted, but the application still won't work.
>> 
>> I've also put aside all the dotted preference files that I could find from 
>> the command line, rebooted again, but the application still won't work 
>> correctly.
>> 
>> What else could I try ?
>> 
>> ps: The application is OpenOffice.org (and LibreOffice) and the bug is: when 
>> I write a file name with non ascii letters then the non ascii parts are 
>> replaced with "?" and when I try to open a file with non ascii characters in 
>> the path then the application says that the file does not exist. NeoOffice 
>> does not show that behavior.
> 
> Get your Finder prefs files from your main account and your other account and 
> run the Developer tool FileMerge on them in pairs to see if there are any 
> significant diffs.

I could do that, but I had erased the Finder prefs before rebooting so I was 
basically starting with a clean Finder.



Jean-Christophe Helary
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