Re: Losing Preferences

2018-01-10 Thread Marc Simpson
Upgraded; I'll bump this thread (and e-mail support) if I encounter any issues. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Marc Simpson wrote: > Great; thanks Rich and David. > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:03 PM, David Kelly wrote: > >> On Wed Jan 10 2018 13:36:22

Re: Losing Preferences

2018-01-10 Thread Marc Simpson
Great; thanks Rich and David. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:03 PM, David Kelly wrote: > On Wed Jan 10 2018 13:36:22 Marc Simpson wrote: > > > Considering an upgrade today—was this issue fixed in 10.13.2? > > For me, Mail.app has not been forgetting its preferences since 10.13.2.

Re: Losing Preferences

2018-01-10 Thread David Kelly
On Wed Jan 10 2018 13:36:22 Marc Simpson wrote: > Considering an upgrade today—was this issue fixed in 10.13.2? For me, Mail.app has not been forgetting its preferences since 10.13.2. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dke...@hiwaay.net Whom

Re: Losing Preferences

2018-01-10 Thread Marc Simpson
Hi folks, Considering an upgrade today—was this issue fixed in 10.13.2? Thanks, Marc On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: > Great to know, thanks guys. > > > > On 2017-11-04, at 09:56, Rich Siegel wrote: > > > >> I am curious if

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-11-04 Thread Tom Robinson
Great to know, thanks guys. > On 2017-11-04, at 09:56, Rich Siegel wrote: > >> I am curious if the 10.13.1 release of High Sierra fixed the >> preferences ‘reset' issue? > > It has not. Apple is still investigating, and it *may* be fixed in the > current 10.13.2

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-11-03 Thread Rich Siegel
On 11/3/17 at 4:37 PM, fschietteca...@gmail.com (François Schiettecatte) wrote: I am curious if the 10.13.1 release of High Sierra fixed the preferences ‘reset' issue? It has not. Apple is still investigating, and it *may* be fixed in the current 10.13.2 developer beta. R. -- Rich Siegel

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-11-03 Thread François Schiettecatte
Hi I am curious if the 10.13.1 release of High Sierra fixed the preferences ‘reset' issue? Thanks François > On Oct 13, 2017, at 8:19 AM, F. Alfredo Rego wrote: > > Thanks for Trying, Rod. > > We’ll conquer this frustrating annoyance, sooner or later. > > Few

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-13 Thread F. Alfredo Rego
Thanks for Trying, Rod. We’ll conquer this frustrating annoyance, sooner or later. Few things are worse (spam comes to mind) than messing with a perfectly fine-tuned working environment that someone has carefully (and lovingly) crafted and optimized. What a perfect example of “No me ayudes,

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-13 Thread Rod Buchanan
FYI that doesn't work. I tried it and it is back to read/write. > On Oct 13, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Rod Buchanan wrote: > > > I'm just throwing this out ... I have no idea what impact it would have on > BBEdit. > > You could try changing the permissions on the pref file to

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-13 Thread Rod Buchanan
I'm just throwing this out ... I have no idea what impact it would have on BBEdit. You could try changing the permissions on the pref file to read-only. You can do it with Finder or use "chmod 400 filename". > On Oct 12, 2017, at 10:37 PM, F. Alfredo Rego wrote: >

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-12 Thread F. Alfredo Rego
I appreciate your pointer, Patrick. Unfortunately, BBEdit’s “core” prefs file also has myriad “peripheral” prefs within its eight thousand five hundred lines (in my case), including recent searches and so on. Apparently, Apple sadistically chooses to reset the really

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-10 Thread F. Alfredo Rego
Thanks, Patrick. One more arrow in our BBEdit quivers as we defend ourselves against Apple’s mischiefs ;-) Alfredo > On Oct 10, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> It will be

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-10 Thread Patrick Woolsey
On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: It will be useful to backup BBEdit’s preferences with git, so we can detect any unwelcome changes and revert them whenever Apple decides to “help” (In Spanish, we say “no me ayudes, compadre” ;-) What file(s) should we

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-09 Thread F. Alfredo Rego
Hi Patrick, It will be useful to backup BBEdit’s preferences with git, so we can detect any unwelcome changes and revert them whenever Apple decides to “help” (In Spanish, we say “no me ayudes, compadre” ;-) What file(s) should we backup thus? Thanks. Alfredo > On Oct 3, 2017, at 10:41

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-03 Thread Ben Smith
Yes, Mail.app and BBEdit here too. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: --- You

Re: Losing Preferences

2017-10-03 Thread Patrick Woolsey
We've gotten a few similar reports of prefs trouble, and have already reported this issue to Apple as it appears to be due to a bug in High Sierra (macOS 10.13). Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. On 10/3/17 at 12:29 PM,