HI Esther, Lovely idea. I did cheat, but the apple accessibility folks haven't responded. :)
Dónal On 6 Oct 2011, at 11:43, Esther wrote: > 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/> 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/>
