Re: Persistent User Defaults
Re: Persistent User Defaults
- Subject: Re: Persistent User Defaults
- From: Jeremy Hughes <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 15:43:58 +0100
Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use:
defaults delete <domain>
as Gary Wade mentioned earlier?
<domain> is a reverse-dns string such as “com.company.appname”
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> On 30 Apr 2018, at 15:31, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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