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On 02/22/06, email@hidden wrote:
>
> Can AppleScript be used to find and replace all copies of a plist file?  I
> would like to disable the option to open safe files after downloading in
> Safari.

AFAIK, AS could be used to find and delete the
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.safari.plist files from each user's home
directory; however, it can't replace them. Only relaunching Safari can do that.
But, this is taking a sledge-hammer approach to the problem, since deleting the
plists reverts all settings back to their defaults. If you're trying to protect
users from the so-called worms floating about, then, IMHO, your solution will
just enrage the users when they find out that they lost their settings. A
better approach would be to change the specific setting in the plist files. Try
something like:

search each user's /Library/Preferences/ folder for the com.apple.safari.plist
file, collect those paths into a list, iterate on each, and execute this:

do shell script "defaults write <individual path to com.apple.safari plist
file> AutoOpenSafeDownloads 0"

Details are left as an exercise.
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