how to reset another app's prefs
Now that the system is doing so much caching of preferences, and simply copying prefs files will not get the job done, is there any other way of forcibly setting another app's preferences? (FYI, neither of the apps in question is sandboxed.) The situation is that an app is accessing a database, tracking events, managing a repository of files, and using AppleScript to drive MS Word to produce certain output. Every once in a while, Word just resets some of its prefs. Every once in a while, it corrupts its prefs. Every once in a while, it wedges itself due to (probably) resource leaks. And so on. So periodically (+ whenever it stops responding) I quit Word, copy preferences files from cached copies I keep that are set the way I want, and relaunch it. So, any way to for certain replace prefs with a know good set previously saved? -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: how to reset another app's prefs
On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:21 PM, Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com wrote: Now that the system is doing so much caching of preferences, and simply copying prefs files will not get the job done, is there any other way of forcibly setting another app's preferences? (FYI, neither of the apps in question is sandboxed.) The situation is that an app is accessing a database, tracking events, managing a repository of files, and using AppleScript to drive MS Word to produce certain output. Every once in a while, Word just resets some of its prefs. Every once in a while, it corrupts its prefs. Every once in a while, it wedges itself due to (probably) resource leaks. And so on. So periodically (+ whenever it stops responding) I quit Word, copy preferences files from cached copies I keep that are set the way I want, and relaunch it. So, any way to for certain replace prefs with a know good set previously saved? You could use -[NSUserDefaults setPersistentDomain:forName:]. You could also use defaults import domain path to plist. Regards, Ken ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: how to reset another app's prefs
On Nov 20, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Ken Thomases k...@codeweavers.com wrote: You could use -[NSUserDefaults setPersistentDomain:forName:]. You could also use defaults import domain path to plist. I never knew about that import subcommand--thanks for pointing it out. I suppose I could *try* reading in the dictionary and then using NSUserDefaults, but frankly I've found the whole caching/syncing thing to be buggy lately. Has anyone actually successfully done anything like this? Oh well, the one thing I've got on my side is that the preference which used to be the single most important one, is no longer important at all. (Show document gallery on launch. It used to be that as long as MS Word was showing the document gallery for the user to choose a template, it was deaf to Apple Events. In fact, if that was enabled in preferences, and you launched it with an Apple Event to open a document, it would not even open that document. All of which is no longer true, so at least MS straightened out that little bit of dementia.) -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: how to reset another app's prefs
On 21 Nov 2014, at 8:21 am, Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com wrote: Every once in a while, Word just resets some of its prefs. Every once in a while, it corrupts its prefs. Every once in a while, it wedges itself due to (probably) resource leaks. And so on. So periodically (+ whenever it stops responding) I quit Word, copy preferences files from cached copies I keep that are set the way I want, and relaunch it. FWIW, this is a not-uncommon problem with AppleScript formatting preferences. It happens even if people lock the .plist. Someone plagued with it recently came up with this Terminal solution on the AppleScript mailing list: do shell script asprefs=$(defaults read com.apple.applescript) ; defaults write com.apple.applescript \$asprefs\ Looks odd, but it might be worth a try. -- Shane Stanley sstan...@myriad-com.com.au www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/ ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
