Yes, although in practice I’ve seen the preferences make it to disk fairly quickly after app termination.
Saagar Jha > On Aug 15, 2023, at 13:36, Gabriel Zachmann <z...@cs.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > Ah, thanks a lot for the insights! > > Could it happen that the new settings have not been written to disk even if > the app has quit normally? > Or, in other words, there might be key/value pairs stored in cfprefsd's > internal/runtime storage, even if i have changed the app and those key/value > pairs do no loner correspond to any of the app's settings? > > Best regards, Gabriel > > > >> On 6. Aug 2023, at 12:57, Saagar Jha <saa...@saagarjha.com> wrote: >> >> The plist file on disk is written to sporadically. cfprefsd is generally the >> arbiter what the real values are, and it may or may not write things to disk >> immediately. Conversely, it’s not necessarily sitting around watching the >> plist file for changes. The correct way to update user defaults in an ad-hoc >> fashion is to use the defaults command. >> > _______________________________________________ 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
