Purge USB caches in OSX

[RickNel]

I've recently had a problem with OSX (Tiger) not recognising a USB device. The problem was resolved when I re-installed Tiger as a clean install. So I believe there should have been a way to clear the USB device properties cache, similar to purging Windows Registry items.

How do you clear a possibly corrupted USB device enumeration cache, or particular device record, in OSX?

Rick

 

[ClassicHasClass]

For 10.4, the kextd caches are stored in /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/ . Conceivably you could just erase the contents of that directory and then immediately reboot to have kextd rebuild them, or, if you wanted a scorched earth approach, whack everything in /System/Library/Caches/ . I'd boot the kernel in verbose mode after clearing the cache just to make sure it properly enumerates devices afterwards.

That said, I've never had to do this.