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>.
