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Old 28th August 2009, 06:24 PM
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Default Snow Leopard Sound Bug?
Hi - first time poster on these forums, long time reader.

Just installed Snow Leopard and really enjoying it. The aesthetic and speed changes are really worth the money paid.

However I've run into a weird setting/bug/feature of SL which I'm not too keen on.

Whenever I start up or restart my mac it resets the volume to 0 meaning I have to press the sound button to get it up again. Its by no means a critical problem, it just bugs me.

Has anyone else had this problem / does anyone know how to fix this?
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Old 28th August 2009, 06:35 PM
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No such bug for me. Volume stays at the same level with a restart.

I upgraded from Leopard, not a clean install.
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Old 28th August 2009, 06:54 PM
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Hmmm, I upgraded as well. I wonder what could have caused it.

I hope there is a way to fix it...
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Old 28th August 2009, 08:55 PM
 
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I'm having the exact same problem Myles.. however mine keeps resetting to volume level 4... (25%). I also performed an upgrade from Leopard.

However this problem does not exist on my mother's iMac after performing the exact same upgrade procedure. Weird...

If anybody has a fix, would be great!! because I like my Mac retaining the volume level I last used, not resetting to 25% on each restart.
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Old 29th August 2009, 01:37 AM
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I'm glad I'm not the only person with the problem. The fact that its done 25% for you and 0% for me seems to indicate to me that its some sort of setting or something...
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Old 30th August 2009, 11:31 AM
 
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I found a fix Myles...

In " Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences / Audio " there are two audio setting files. Delete them. Set your sound to the desired setting. Restart.

You may have trouble logging on after a restart, if this happens... just power off your Mac for 10 seconds, then turn it back on. Your sound issue should now be fixed!!
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Old 30th August 2009, 02:50 PM
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Wow thanks, that worked a trick!

I spent an hour trying things with apple phone support yesterday to no avail - in the end he just recommended I reinstall it.

No need for that now
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No worries

Good thing you didn't reload Snow Leopard :P
Just a matter of deleting, which forces Mac to "rebuild" those 2 files on a reboot.

Somehow, for some reason... they ended up being corrupted when updating to Snow Leopard.
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Old 4th September 2009, 04:44 AM
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OMG Thank You So Much!!! You have no idea how much headache you saved me for such a silly problem.
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Old 13th September 2009, 02:35 PM
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I found a fix Myles...

In " Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences / Audio " there are two audio setting files. Delete them. Set your sound to the desired setting. Restart.

You may have trouble logging on after a restart, if this happens... just power off your Mac for 10 seconds, then turn it back on. Your sound issue should now be fixed!!
I have the same problem. I hear the chime but my volume is always 0 on reboot. However, in Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences I have no Audio folder!
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Old 18th September 2009, 07:13 AM
 
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Thumbs up sound bug too!!!
I have same problem on my mac pro and snow leopard resets vol to 0 found the two audio files just gonna delete them and restart thanks
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Old 1st October 2009, 10:02 AM
 
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I've had a variation of this problem: my volume control resets to mid-level every time I start up. I had originally thought that this was a side effect of my using (the incompatible, but useable AstoundSound sound enhancer app).
I stumbled upon a workaround for making this app useable (until they upgrade to a 64-bit compatible app).
I agree — it is a royal pain to have to reset the sound after starting up. But I've encountered an even more disturbing bug:
I transferred two folders of documents to a flash drive; one folder opens displaying default fields; the other has no toolbar or view options or quick look & option buttons! What's going on here?
More troublesome is after transferring files to a flash drive, the info given in the comments fields is not copied over from my original file; if I paste it in manually, it disappears the next time I boot up the flash drive.
Anyone encountered a bug like this? Or have any ideas for a workaround?
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Old 8th November 2009, 04:42 PM
 
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Macintosh HD / Library / Preferences / Audio where do I go to get to this on my mac pro? I don't know where Macintosh HD is. Thanks for the help.
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Old 15th December 2009, 04:48 AM
 
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Thank you!!!!!!!
This was starting to get really annoying, having my machine restart at full volume.
So I'm assuming that the default is a result of the volume at the time of the SL install?
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Old 22nd February 2010, 03:45 PM
 
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I purchased an iMac with Snow Leopard pre installed. I trashed my audio preferences and rebooted, no luck. The problem is in my System Preferences/Sound the Mute box is checked and grayed out. I cannot even adjust the volume? No sound for iTunes or dvd player, it is truly annoying? Has anyone come across this particular problem? I have been using macs since the mid 90's and never had an issue like this? Hope someone can point me in right direction to fix this?
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