On Wed, Sep 10, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Todd Heberlein wrote: > > in the past few years when it's happened it's been an early symptom of > > filesystem corruption. Sometimes there have been a bunch of leftover > > temporary lock(?) files in the Preferences directory. > > > > If you're getting reports of this from users of your app, it might be worth > > asking them to run Disk First Aid. > > I’ve run into this problem during software development (can’t recall for > shipping apps). Since it is just during development, I trash the > preferences file for the app and the problem usually goes away.
Part of the problem might be that you should avoid touching or viewing the plist files in ~/Library/Preferences. cfprefsd has gotten more and more aggressive about in-memory caching over the past few years, and the preferences files might be out of date. If you want to nuke an app's preferences, use `defaults delete your.bundle.identifier`. However, in the past that has sometimes not found the correct container. In that case you might still need to delete the appropriate plist, but you may need to log out and back in both before and after doing so to ensure that the changes are picked up by cfprefsd. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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
