Re: error attempting AppleShowAllFiles
Re: error attempting AppleShowAllFiles
- Subject: Re: error attempting AppleShowAllFiles
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:57:36 -0700
On 10/21/11, Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> There is a more subtle bug in the script you supply. An application's
>preference file should not be modified (except by the application itself)
>while the application is running. The script should quit Finder *before*
>mucking around with its defaults.
FWIW, I've been toggling ShowAllFiles on and off for years using the script I
posted earlier w/o encountering that so-called bug. Maybe that's becauise I'm
killing the Finder after each use and the plist file it's running on is stored
in RAM and upon restart it's grabbing the changed one.
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