I've been doing some research to come up with a list of where the major applications store their preferences in OSX to help me down the road when I do multiple installs. I like to keep clean copies of our specific preferences so that I can use them when I set up machines or if a machine needs to be reinstalled or a file corrupts. Is there someplace on the web that someone can direct me that specifies where the various applications store their preferences files because it seems to vary from application to application? I guess I can contact each manufacturer, but I thought there might be some place that combined this info.
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) you should back this folder up because if you upgrade to Panther, reinstall the OS or Quark you will need to pull this file back to keep from making a call to Quark about activating your license. 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. 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? 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? I guess I just thought there has to be someplace where someone has already done the legwork to figure this all out. But if contacting the various software companies is what it takes, I guess I'll spend a day doing that. -- Thanks! Beth Fastline Publications Inc. DISCLAIMER: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. | 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>.
