Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to performing a kill?
> On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day <nathan_...@mac.com> wrote: > > Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or > deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the > change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes > with > > killall cfprefsd > > it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out > changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change and > then kill again. > > > >> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file >> located in ~/Library/Preferences. >> >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.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
