I think, under the covers, there's a daemon (cfprefsd) that actually manages the defaults, which 'defaults' goes through but arbitrary file modifications do not. So it's likely it got replaced by the daemon. Waiting a while would presumably let the daemon flush its cache.
On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Dimitri Delcourt <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, well. > > I deleted the preferences files before rushing back home, did not launch QC > afterwards, so a few hours passed by. > Back home in the evening I launched QC and all is fine. Go figure. > > One question remains, where was that file cached? and how did it happen that > a few hours of waiting resolved the problem? I would like to know, especially > if I’m running into trouble before going on stage… I used to feel confident, > but not anymore with QC. > > Thanks Troy! > > * > > d. > > > On 29 Jan 2014, at 18:41, Troy Koelling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Dimitri Delcourt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ok, my mistake. >>> >>> Upgraded to Mavericks and tried the multi-sampling preferences again (with >>> high expectations), obviously to no effect. >>> QC does not open anymore, it crashes on startup. Of course. >>> >>> But now this is getting ridiculous, I can’t delete the editor preferences >>> for real, because it recreates itself exactly in the same state it was >>> before deletion. >>> >>> What gives? >>> I can open the qc editor prefs file, edit the keys and try to turn the >>> multi-sampling key to <false>, save, open QC and watch the file edit itself >>> under my eyes back to <true>. Maddening. >>> >>> Please, please help me find the ghost data, i need to clean this for good! >> >> This has bitten me as well. Supposedly, you were never supposed to be able >> to edit the plist directly but it got more strict recently. You need to use >> the command-line utility. >> >> It should be something like this: >> >> defaults delete com.apple.QuartzComposer.editor multisampling -- Christopher Wright [email protected]
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