Re: Persistent User Defaults
Re: Persistent User Defaults
- Subject: Re: Persistent User Defaults
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:31:51 -0500
Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to
performing a kill?
> On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or
> deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the
> change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes
> with
>
> killall cfprefsd
>
> it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out
> changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change and
> then kill again.
>
>
>
>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file
>> located in ~/Library/Preferences.
>>
>> If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist
>> until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a
>> clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the preference plist
>> file but you must also restart the machine.
>
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