UPDATE: It appears Parallels changes the group to accessibility and this procedure does NOT work.

Parallels 6 had been running great for quite a while but at some point, restarting Parallels would prompt me to re-enter the activation key; the key in the dialog was from the previous version. For whatever reason, it would not stick.

I realized today that the group permissions on the preferences files for Parallels was different than the others; the files had a group of “accessibility.” To fix it, I changed the group back to what was on most of the other files; your group name most likely will be different.

$ cd /Users/rick/Library/Preferences
$ ls -l com.parallels.*
-rw-------  1 rick  accessibility  21059 Dec 26 19:59 com.parallels.Parallels Desktop Statistics.plist
-rw-------  1 rick  accessibility  23972 Dec 26 19:59 com.parallels.Parallels Desktop.plist
-rw-------  1 rick  accessibility   5430 Dec 26 19:59 com.parallels.Parallels.plist
-rw-------  1 rick  accessibility   1642 Dec  7 16:36 com.parallels.desktop.console.plist
-rw-------  1 rick  rick             905 Feb 11  2009 com.parallels.desktop.plist
-rw-------  1 rick  rick             505 Feb 11  2009 com.parallels.imagetool.plist
$ chgrp rick com.parallels.*

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