On Jul 2, 2015, at 23:11, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>> Since 10.9 preferences are saved a cache on the system. (During a run this
>> will be in memory, not
>> in a file, so it is much faster to access.) The files in Library/Preferences
>> are really only a
>> backup, so changing them usually makes no difference. This may also explain
>> why you did not see
>> any information in them about this. (If you want to force a reset of the
>> (cached) prefs from the
>> files, you should run "defaults read -app Skim" from the Terminal after
>> changing the plist file.)
>>
>> The LSSharedFileList is just for the system to track files apps open, rather
>> than for the app
>> itself. Think of the Recent Documents in the Apple menu, I guess.
>>
>
> Just before receiving your message :) I found this thread on the mailing
> list: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.skim.user/3943 that
> explained the cache.
> So I did a
> defaults delete net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks
> and then copied the preferences backups over, and lo and behold, I got my
> files back. The first thing I did was making a session backup.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help.
> --
> Piet van Oostrum <p...@vanoostrum.org>
> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/
> PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4]
The .bookmarks.plist file does not contain any of this info. That only contains
the actual bookmarks, not the previous session.
Christiaan
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