Command + S not working

[amadues]

Hey guys,

I'm stuck with a problem here.
The shortcut Cmd + S stops working a few minutes after I log in to my user account. It'll work for some time after I log in but then will stop working.
After that, it doesn't work in any application.
The shortcut is still listed in the File option of every application. And I can save by clicking on that.

I googled & searched and found a few threads with a similar problem. Their solutions included removing the speech program from the login items but I have only HardwareGrowler and Alfred in mine.
I tried removing them also, but same problem.

Cmd + S hasn't been assigned as some other option's shortcut in the Keyboard Shortcuts part of System Preferences either.

I'm running Lion on a late 2008 Aluminum 13" Macbook.

Hope you guys can help.
Thanks a lot either way.

 

[amadues]

Okay, so I booted into Safe Mode and Command + S is working exactly as it should in all the applications for extended periods of time.
So, it's most probably a 3rd party application which is causing this problem.

Any thoughts on how to narrow it down to a particular app?

I have only 3 items in my Login Items list.

• Hardware Growler
• JiTouch
• Alfred

All of which I executed in Safe Mode and the shortcut is still working.

 

[spoonie1972]

al alternate idea - toss the plist for your keyboard preferences and let it be rebuilt.

 

[amadues]

al alternate idea - toss the plist for your keyboard preferences and let it be rebuilt.

Which file would I be looking at exactly? I googled but I'm not too sure..
Thank for the help, btw.

 

[spoonie1972]

in the past it was here (in your user folder)
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist

not sure about Lion as i'm not on a Lion machine right now.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2229413?start=0&tstart=0

 

[amadues]

in the past it was here (in your user folder)
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist

not sure about Lion as i'm not on a Lion machine right now.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2229413?start=0&tstart=0

I've been looking for that file but sadly, I can't.
the terminal command sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist and Easy Find can't find it either.

 

[Mal]

I've been looking for that file but sadly, I can't.
the terminal command sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist and Easy Find can't find it either.

Change that to sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist. The post you were replying to specified the user library, but didn't use that path convention.

jW

 

[amadues]

Change that to sudo rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist. The post you were replying to specified the user library, but didn't use that path convention.

jW

Thank you for the reply, but i'm still getting the same error.
"no such file of directory"

How should I proceed now?