Hi, Bill, good to see your name again. Can you tell me how to open any plist? I always get that famous answer that you can't open it because the application that created it cannot be found. Then I am supposed to choose an application. How, in God's name ,should I know which application might do the trick. Thus far I have never been successful - never ever! And believe you me, I have tried! And it's not only plists. I constantly run into these, what I call forbidden chambers. Marta On Friday, Mar 5, 2004, at 11:42 US/Eastern, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 3/5/04 10:56, Beth Ernst wrote > > [snip...] >> >> For example with Quark I have found that the install information - >> registration info, etc. is stored in the Library/Preferences/Quark >> folder. >> In fact, according to the Macintouch site, >> (see http://www.macintouch.com/quark05.html look for Activation >> Problems) > [snip...] >> It looks like my personal Quark settings are stored in my >> user/Library/Preferences folder because if I remove this folder I >> lose all >> my preference settings I have setup in Quark. > > This looks like Quark is handling preferences correctly, unlike > companies > like (ahem) Micro$oft. The unix way of playing with things like > preferences is to have a hierarchy of preferences: > > Site Wide (network) > Local Machine > User within Local Machine > (and I *think* that there are unixen which have a Zone level between > Site > and Local). > > The software is supposed to traverse the hierarchy from top to bottom, > so > that there are some uniform preferences which may be overridden by more > local preferences. The more local, the later the preferences are read, > so > local prefs override global prefs in every case. > >> What then is the file in this >> same folder called com.quark.QuarkXPress.plist? I thought these were >> preference files also. What information does it store? > > Try double clicking it. It'll open up the property list editor (which > is > for editing XML files), and you can see what prefs are set in the file. > >> Also some of the same >> files that exist in this folder are in the Library/Preferences/Quark >> folder >> too. I assume OS X looks at my user folder first to pull my >> preferences from >> there? > > See above (it looks at your stuff last, so that it can override the > site-wide prefs) > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2568 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040305/cfc58813/attachment.bin
