Comment 14 for bug 194241

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Alvin Penner (apenner) wrote : Re: preferences.xml not a valid XML file, or you dont have read permissions on it. inkscape will run with default settings, new settings will not be saved

@Daniel, your preferences file had an extra > at the end which was causing a syntax error on loading, not sure where that came from. Otherwise the file looks fairly normal.
- are you using a tablet?
- which OS?
- could you try deleting or renaming the preferences file to see if the newly created file works properly?
- does this happen if you simply open Inkscape and close it without actually doing anything?
- could you attach the error message you are getting?