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Re: Hunting for System Preferences
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Re: Hunting for System Preferences


  • Subject: Re: Hunting for System Preferences
  • From: Gibbons Burke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 01:30:41 -0500

At 5:10 PM -0600 6/2/02, Carl Norum wrote:
>I cannot for the life of me find out where to get the current user's preferred mail application... does anybody out there have any pointers on how to go about finding the current settings of System Preferences values?
>
>Thanks very much!

The information about default Internet applications is stored in this property list text file:

/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Internet.prefPane/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/DefaultHelperApps.plist

The file contains some documentation on how the file is structured and used.

Gibbons Burke

The government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always count on the support of Paul. [George Bernard Shaw]
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