Hi Shaun, • You wrote: I've got a problem. I need to remove a global hotkey I inadvertently setup in YoruFukurou. does anyone know how I can do this? I've tried deleting the ap and all the prefs and caches for it that I could find, but no dice. any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you want to delete all configurations for an application, look in your account's Library preferences folder and either delete the corresponding .plist file or move it to a different location. In the case of YoruFukurou, I'd guess this would a file named like: ~/Library/Preferences/com.YoruFukurouProject.YoruFukurou.plist From Finder, use the Command-Shift-G "Go to folder" shortcut, and type or paste into the text box: ~/Library/Preferences then press return. This format has a leading tilde character, followed by a slash, followed by "Library", followed by a slash, followed by "Preferences". The tilde and slash are equivalent to the user's home directory. So if you don't like to use this style of leading special characters, you can break up the above directions into two steps in Finder: 1. Command-Shift-H 2. Command-Shift-G then type or paste in: Library/Preferences and press return. Once in the Library/Preferences folder for your account, search for a file with a name associated with the vendor and function. For Apple's applications, names will start with "com.apple" -- like "com.apple.mail.plist" for Mail, or "com.apple.Safari.plist" for Safari. For third party software, the name could start with a different prefix, like a "net", "org", or a country domain like "de" or "jp", or even just the name of an app without prefixes like "stanza.plist". If you're wondering what the associated plist file is called, an easy way to find out is to quit the application, but then navigate to the your Library/Preferences folder and display it in list view (Command-2). I think that by default this view shows the files sorted according to the "Date Modified" column, but if this is not the case, just interact with the list view, navigate past the first column with the name of the app to the "Date Modified" column, and use the shortcut to sort, which is VO-Shift-backslash on an English language input keyboard. (For the shortcut key used for other languages, use VO-H-H to bring up the VoiceOver commands help menu and navigate to "Tables" to check the shortcut assignment for sorting.) Applying the shortcut again reverses the direction of the sort. Every time you open an application, the system opens and reads the associated .plist file to determine your preference settings. And every time you close an application, the system updates and saves the current state of your preferences in the .plist file. If the plist is not found in that location, then a new one is created the next time you open the application, and all the default settings are applied. You mentioned creating a global hotkey. I'm not sure how the YoruFukurou program handles this, but shortcut keys that work everywhere also have associated preference files -- probably in the keyboard shortcuts. And the preference list for global assignments won't be updated until you either log out of your account (if this is set up under your preferences -- not a system wide configuration), or reboot your computer. So it's possible that you don't need to delete any plist files for that app if you simply log out and log back in again. Or you may have to both delete the preference file and log out. So, to summarize, application specific settings get updated when you close or quit the application, and take effect the next time you open the application. System wide shortcuts won't take effect until you either log out and log in again (if this is a preference that is set up only for your account, and not everyone's account), or until you reboot your computer (if this is a preference setting that is changed for all users.) The associated files are stored under the Library/Preferences folder for your account, or on a system wide level in the /Library/Preferences folder (with a leading slash character before "Library" to indicate this is a system level folder). Preference files with the ".plist" extension can be deleted or moved to another location without problems, but you'll lose all your configuration settings and revert to the default values. Starting with Lion, system folders like "Library" are set to be hidden from the user by default. That means that you can navigate to them with the Command-Shift-G "Go to folder" shortcut, but they won't show up if you browse your account under Finder. If you want to unhide them, you either need to launch Terminal (in Finder: Command-Shift-U, press "t" to go to Terminal, then Command-Down Arrow to open) and type or paste in a command like: chflags nohidden ~/Library/ then press return to have it take effect, and quit Terminal with Command-Q. (Note this uses the tilde slash "Library" notation, so read this character by character or copy and paste the command.) To hide the library again, use: chflags hidden ~/Library/ An easier way to unhide all folders, and run other useful configurations for your machine is to get the free Tinkertool software: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html Incidentally, I strongly advise that you create a second guest or test account on your Mac, so that: a) you'll always be able to log in, even if you manage to make changes to your own account that have bad consequences (e.g your VoiceOver doesn't work as you intended), and b) you can tell whether problems that crop up are local to changes you made to your account, and can be fixed by deleting bad or corrupted preference files, or whether they are system-wide. I also take the precaution of periodically going to my Library/Preferences folder in list view, and copying the 50 or so most recently modified plist files to a folder in another location, such as my Desktop. That way I can quickly recover to older, working preferences if I do manage to change things by just copying an older version of the plist to this folder. Since these files are very small, this is a fast way to revert to older settings, and its not worth using TimeMachine to recover. HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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