The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue….
I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… Â The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message…
/System/Library/CoreServices/PreferenceSyncClient.app/Contents/MacOS/PreferenceSyncClient –sync –periodic
and the next command will display all the files that have any array in it…
egrep \’^<array>\’ ~/Library/Preferences/*
I do not suggest deleting these files, instead move them to a different directory. Â For example, my iTunes preferences was detected as a file in question… Â As well as the iCal alarmscache file…. Â And neither application was indicating or showing any issues… Â So move the file to a different location, and test to ensure that you are not receiving a false positive….
egrep just does a pattern match, so it just scanning the files for \”<array>\” being found at the beginning of a line. Â I hope to have this confirmed as a solution in a few hours, when I don\’t see this error message in the log file any longer…
Thanks for the solution!
In case anyone comes to this page via google and then does a copy/paste of that first command, the dashes encode weird in transition, so just erase them and type them in manually… and it’s *2* dashes in front of ‘sync’.
As you were. 🙂