I appreciate your pointer, Patrick. Unfortunately, BBEdit’s “core” prefs file also has myriad “peripheral” prefs within its eight thousand five hundred lines (in my case), including recent searches and so on.
Apparently, Apple sadistically chooses to reset the really painful-to-re-enter-every-time “core” preferences while choosing to leave “peripheral” preferences alone. As I waste extremely valuable time re-configuring my BBEdit prefs every time that I restart BBEdit, I give up on the treasure hunt (within com.barebones.bbedit.plist) for the preferences that are truly essential and important. I would be willing to pay for a script (or something) that cruises around com.barebones.bbedit.plist and, as soon as it detects underhanded mischief, resets MY preferences to whatever I have patiently and lovingly crafted to suit MY requirements. I’m sure I’m not the only one being hurt badly, in terms of my time, due to this specific issue with High Sierra. Any enterprising folks out there who would like to develop a burglar alarm for BBEdit’s prefs? I regret having downgraded to Low Sierra. The options for going back to Sierra are even more painful than having to re-enter all of my favorite BBEdit prefs. Sigh . . . Alfredo > On Oct 10, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, [email protected] (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> It will be useful to backup BBEdit’s preferences with git, so we >> can detect any unwelcome changes and revert them whenever Apple >> decides to “help” (In Spanish, we say “no me ayudes, compadre” ;-) >> >> What file(s) should we backup thus? >> > > For reference, BBEdit's core prefs file (which is the most likely to suffer > OS mischiefs) is: > > /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.plist > > where USERNAME is the short name of your login account. > > Also, for anyone who'd like a full inventory of BBEdit's supporting files, > please see Chapter 2 of the PDF manual. :) > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/> -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
