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 <moon.rab...@virginmedia.com> 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 <z...@mac.com> 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 <nathan_...@mac.com> 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 <rcharles...@gmail.com> 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >>> >>> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >>> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >>> >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com >>> >>> This email sent to z...@mac.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/moon.rabbit%40virginmedia.com >> >> This email sent to moon.rab...@virginmedia.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/2551phil%40gmail.com > > This email sent to 2551p...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
