It seems the file is there, but my inability to find it makes me
think maybe it's invisible.
Sure enough, after poking around a bit, the file path is ...
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.
000a277a84e4.plist
and the key is ...
com.apple.sound.beep.sound
On Jun 14, 2007, at 3:48 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <email@hidden> writes:
Randal> It's an element of "Apple Global Domain", so
Randal> defaults -currentHost read "Apple Global Domain"
com.apple.sound.beep.sound
Randal> reads it and
Randal> defaults -currentHost write "Apple Global Domain"
com.apple.sound.beep.sound /System/Library/Sounds/Bottle.aiff
Randal> in fact changed my beep sound to Bottle. No need for
grepping.
Ahh, and you can replace (as he reads the docs) "Apple Global Domain"
there in both instances with just "-g" and it does the same thing.
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