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Stickies is beachballing - OSX Yosemite

15 Jan 2015

Stickies kept beachballing on me upon startup and would eventually crash. Checking dmesg in the Terminal revealed that it had issues handling its own application state.

$: sudo dmesg
...
Sandbox: Stickies(22579) System Policy: deny file-write-unlink /Users/phuesler/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Stickies.savedState/restorecount.plist
...

I have fixed it by deleting restorecount.plist but making a backup of it first, just in case:

$: cp -p “~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Stickies.savedState/restorecount.plist” /tmp/restorecount.plist
$: rm -rf “~/Library/Saved Application State/com.apple.Stickies.savedState/restorecount.plist”