Re: Read Write pList Files
Re: Read Write pList Files
- Subject: Re: Read Write pList Files
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:09:50 -0500
Subject changed from Re: (no subject)
On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Typo - you called the record 'defaultPrefsRec' but then referenced it
> as 'defaultPrefsRecord'.
Yes, that was a typo. Thanks.
> shame there's no way to create a new preferences file from System
> Events, rather than shelling out to defaults write.
>
> I would add a
>
> do shell script "plutil -convert xml1 " & (POSIX path of prefsFile)
>
> so that you get an XML-formatted plist instead of the default binary
> format; that way the config is human-readable, which is the main
> benefit of flat text files of the sort you started out with.
An older version of Property List Editor allowed you to see the file in xml format. I found this format more confusing than helpful, so I have always ignored xml. I've never used 'plutil' and I wonder if using it to convert a file to 'xml1' format would interfere with the ability to read/write its contents as an AppleScript record. (?)
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