Re: Persistent User Defaults
Re: Persistent User Defaults
- Subject: Re: Persistent User Defaults
- From: 2551phil <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:47:02 +0700
Agreed. Only one thing that I didn’t see mentioned yet is that when using
defaults delete the targeted app should not be running.
> On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:43, Jeremy Hughes <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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”
>
> —
>
>> 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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