Thanks for Trying, Rod. We’ll conquer this frustrating annoyance, sooner or later.
Few things are worse (spam comes to mind) than messing with a perfectly fine-tuned working environment that someone has carefully (and lovingly) crafted and optimized. What a perfect example of “No me ayudes, compadre”. Alfredo > On Oct 13, 2017, at 7:28 AM, Rod Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FYI that doesn't work. I tried it and it is back to read/write. > > >> On Oct 13, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Rod Buchanan <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> I'm just throwing this out ... I have no idea what impact it would have on >> BBEdit. >> >> You could try changing the permissions on the pref file to read-only. You >> can do it with Finder or use "chmod 400 filename". >> >> >>> On Oct 12, 2017, at 10:37 PM, F. Alfredo Rego <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> 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] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[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/ >>>> <http://www.barebones.com/>> >>> >> > > -- > Rod Buchanan > Kelly Supply Company > 1004 W Oklahoma Ave > Grand Island, NE 68802-1328 > 308 382-8764 x1120 -- 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.
