Yup, it's a file on your hard drive someplace. Usually in the preference
folder inside the Library folder. There are two sets. One is at the top
level of the hard drive /Library/Preferences and the other is in your
user folder /Users/username/Library/Preferences. As is implied by the
folders, changes made at the top level apply to everyone while changes
in the users instance just apply to that user. Folks are always poking
through those files trying to hunt down secret features that Apple might
not have turned on.
CB
On 2/21/12 3:58 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi CB,
I found a page full of tweaks for osx, and in there, many times, the com.apple
object comes by. So is it something on disk in a normal file? So a p list is a
property list? And another coin drops into place. And yes, the defaults command
is closely related every time. I'll read on about that to get a better
understanding of it all. Thanks.
Paul.
On Feb 21, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
You must be poking around in your preferences folder. These usually preferences settings such as
com.apple.recentitems.plist. Some are in XML while others are in a binary format which is not "human
readable". In either case you can use the Property List Editor included with XCode which gives you a nice
hierarchical list of all the settings inside a plist file. I think the editor is the default app to open a plist file,
at at least it is for me. From the terminal you can also play with the "defaults" command which lets you
read/write attributes in a plist. Just do a "man defaults" for details. For example, "defaults read
com.apple.recentitems" would output to your termial all the settings store in the com.apple.recentitems.plist.
CB
On 2/21/12 11:42 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Dear listers,
When examining commands for the mac command line, I keep coming across
com.apple. I think it is some kind of object that has properties. What does
this thing do? Where do I find documentation about this? Man doesn't have an
explanation as far as I can see. Can anyone help me get started a little bit?
Do I set object properties in front or after com.apple?
Paul.
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