Hi Dónal, You could try doing the following: quit the Preview app. In Finder, use Command-Shift-G to navigate to the Library/Preferences folder of your home directory. For example, use tilde to indicate your home directory and type: ~/Library/Preferences for the path to this folder. Choose list view (Command+2) for FInder. Then navigate to the column for date modified and sort on this column (with VO-Shift-Backslash). Open Preview, then Command-tab back to Finder. Check which folder was last modified in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Hopefully, it will be the one associated with Preview.
I used this method to identify the preference files associated with new language setups. It had an unlikely name of com.apple.HIToolbox.plist, and it turned out that this stood for "Human Interface Toolbox". I also used this method to determine which plist files I should copy to a local backup folder -- I only wanted to keep copies of the most frequently used ones. You could also just send a query to accessibil...@apple.com, but of course that would be cheating <smile>. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 6, 2011, at 00:24, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > I did indeed James but no joy. > On 6 Oct 2011, at 11:23, James AUSTIN wrote: > >> Hi Donal and Esther, >> >> There are indeed plist files for Preview in the Library folder, but not the >> one that Donal is looking for. Donal, have you tried a system-wide search >> for the file? If it does not exist, I wonder if the name has been changed. >> >> Best >> James >> On 6 Oct 2011, at 11:20, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> doesn't seem to be Esther no. >>> On 6 Oct 2011, at 11:21, Esther wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Dónal, >>>> >>>> Did they change this in Lion? Isn't the file still named >>>> "com.apple.Preview.plist" and located in the Library/Preferences folder of >>>> your user account? >>>> >>>> On Oct 6, 2011, at 00:07, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does anyone know its location and name under Lion? >>>>> >>>>> Cheers. >>>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>>> dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie >>>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
