One thing further. The defaults are set in the program, and changes are written to the plist when they first differ from the set defaults. This can be very confusing since many folks expect to see all defaults in the file and are surprised to see only a few. Interestingly it appears that if they are changed back the change is still written to the plist so that over time you may get the entire set there.
- Jack > On Apr 24, 2018, at 8:51 AM, Rob Petrovec <petr...@mac.com> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 24, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file >> located in ~/Library/Preferences. > Thats not entirely accurate. They can be in various locations, > including but not limited to ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost, > /Library/Preferences & /Library/Preferences/ByHost > > >> If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist >> until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a >> clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the preference plist >> file but you must also restart the machine. >> >> Can anyone shed light on this behavior? > You should use the ‘defaults’ command in Terminal to do modifications > like this (see 'man defaults’ for more info). It will cause CFPreferences to > reload the prefs for the effected app automagically. If you want to blow > away all the prefs for an app use ‘defaults delete <app identifier string>’. > If you want to load a pre-configured .plist use 'defaults import <app > identifier string> <path to plist>’. > > Hope that helps. > > —Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jackbrindle%40me.com > > This email sent to jackbrin...@me.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
