On Sunday, August 24, 2014, ctfishman <mfisc...@casciac.org> wrote:
What about replacing the plists with symbolic links named
com.barebones.bbedit.plist in ~/Library/Preferences/ on each machine,
and linking the symlinks to the actual plist file stored
somewhere within Dropbox?
Do NOT do this, unless pain is something you enjoy.
The location and content of the preferences files has always
been an internal implementation detail of the OS. It's already
changed once (from XML to binary) in its lifetime. In 10.8 it
changed again with the introduction of `cfprefsd`, such that
there is no longer a correlation between application preferences
behavior and the state of the file on disk.
Don't mess with anything inside ~/Library/Preferences/, and that
includes relocating files and leaving behind symlinks. It will
only end in tears, eventually if not immediately.
R.
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sedate me.
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