On Dec 10, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

>> On Dec 10, 2013, at 7:46 AM, Jakob Egger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Or does OS X Mavericks recreate deleted preference files in some cases?
> 
> Bingo. You are now caught up with the original post in this thread.
> 
> The plist files are and always have been an implementation detail. The only 
> supported interface to preferences has always been through 
> CFPreferences/NSUserDefaults, whether via code or the defaults command line 
> tool.

How about sandboxed applications? Their preference files are opaque to 
NSUserDefaults, and only sometimes visible to /usr/bin/defaults. How should one 
delete a corrupted plist file in a sandbox?

Charles

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