On Sep 10, 2014, at 7:04 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> wrote:
> 
> The real point: plenty of sites on the web state that the .plist no longer 
> represents the current state, but that the defaults command will read the 
> current state so you can use it for debugging. They are wrong. Apparently 
> there's something about the caching such that defaults, and I expect any 
> other process outside the one making the changes, DOES NOT return the latest 
> values you synched. It is absolutely the case that your app can use 
> NSUserDefaults to update defaults, can synch them, can then read back the new 
> values and confirm that NSUserDefaults is returning the latest values you 
> gave it, and the defaults command line will at that point still be returning 
> stale values from before your update.

It’s my understanding that this shouldn’t happen. If you can reproduce it, you 
should file a Radar.

Also, you should almost never need to call -synchronize yourself. The framework 
does it at appropriate times.

--Kyle Sluder

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