Hi I am curious if the 10.13.1 release of High Sierra fixed the preferences ‘reset' issue?
Thanks François > On Oct 13, 2017, at 8:19 AM, F. Alfredo Rego <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]> 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]> >>>> 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]> >>>>> 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/> >>>> >>> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
