Re: Persistent User Defaults

Agreed. Only one thing that I didn’t see mentioned yet is that when using defaults delete the targeted app should not be running. > On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:43, Jeremy Hughes wrote: > > Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use: > > defaults delete >

Re: Persistent User Defaults

Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use: defaults delete as Gary Wade mentioned earlier? is a reverse-dns string such as “com.company.appname” — > On 30 Apr 2018, at 15:31, Alex Zavatone wrote: > > Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write

Re: Persistent User Defaults

Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to performing a kill? > On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day wrote: > > Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or > deleting it can take a while for the user defaults

Re: Persistent User Defaults

Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes with killall cfprefsd it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and

Re: Persistent User Defaults

> On Apr 24, 2018, at 16:14, Jack Brindle wrote: > > Interestingly it appears that if they are changed back the change is still > written to the plist so that over time you may get the entire set there. > > - Jack FWIW, that’s up to the program, and is not dictated by

Re: Persistent User Defaults

One thing further. The defaults are set in the program, and changes are written to the plist when they first differ from the set defaults. This can be very confusing since many folks expect to see all defaults in the file and are surprised to see only a few. Interestingly it appears that if

Re: Persistent User Defaults

> On Apr 24, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Richard Charles wrote: > > On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file > located in ~/Library/Preferences. Thats not entirely accurate. They can be in various locations, including but not limited

Re: Persistent User Defaults

Try defaults delete in the Terminal. -- Gary L. Wade http://www.garywade.com/ > On Apr 24, 2018, at 8:42 AM, Richard Charles wrote: > > On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file > located in ~/Library/Preferences. > > If this file is

Persistent User Defaults

On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file located in ~/Library/Preferences. If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a clean set of user preferences not