Re: Persistent User Defaults

[2551phil]

Agreed. Only one thing that I didn’t see mentioned yet is that when using 
defaults delete the targeted app should not be running.

> On 30 Apr 2018, at 21:43, Jeremy Hughes  wrote:
> 
> Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use:
> 
> defaults delete 
> 
> as Gary Wade mentioned earlier?
> 
>  is a reverse-dns string such as “com.company.appname”
> 
> —
> 
>> On 30 Apr 2018, at 15:31, Alex Zavatone  wrote:
>> 
>> Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to 
>> performing a kill?
>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or 
>>> deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the 
>>> change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes 
>>> with
>>> 
>>> killall cfprefsd
>>> 
>>> it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out 
>>> changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change 
>>> and then kill again.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
 On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles  wrote:
 
 On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist 
 file located in ~/Library/Preferences.
 
 If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still 
 persist until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start 
 with a clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the 
 preference plist file but you must also restart the machine.
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Re: Persistent User Defaults

[Jeremy Hughes]

Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use:

defaults delete 

as Gary Wade mentioned earlier?

 is a reverse-dns string such as “com.company.appname”

—

> On 30 Apr 2018, at 15:31, Alex Zavatone  wrote:
> 
> Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to 
> performing a kill?
> 
>> On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day  wrote:
>> 
>> Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or 
>> deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the 
>> change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes 
>> with
>> 
>> killall cfprefsd
>> 
>> it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out 
>> changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change and 
>> then kill again.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles  wrote:
>>> 
>>> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist 
>>> file located in ~/Library/Preferences.
>>> 
>>> If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist 
>>> until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a 
>>> clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the preference plist 
>>> file but you must also restart the machine.
>> 
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Re: Persistent User Defaults

[Alex Zavatone]

Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to 
performing a kill?

> On Apr 30, 2018, at 4:52 AM, Nathan Day  wrote:
> 
> Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or 
> deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the 
> change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes 
> with
> 
> killall cfprefsd
> 
> it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out 
> changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change and 
> then kill again.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles  wrote:
>> 
>> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file 
>> located in ~/Library/Preferences.
>> 
>> If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist 
>> until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a 
>> clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the preference plist 
>> file but you must also restart the machine.
> 
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Re: Persistent User Defaults

[Nathan Day]

Thats not completely correct modifying the preferences file directly or 
deleting it can take a while for the user defaults process to pick up the 
change, but you can force the user defaults process to pick up the changes with

killall cfprefsd

it can be a little bit complicated sometimes and the process can write out 
changes before you kill it, so sometime you have to kill make you change and 
then kill again.



> On 25 Apr 2018, at 3:42 am, Richard Charles  wrote:
> 
> On macOS an applications user defaults are stored in a preference plist file 
> located in ~/Library/Preferences.
> 
> If this file is deleted, user preferences for the application still persist 
> until the machine is rebooted. In other words if you want to start with a 
> clean set of user preferences not only must you delete the preference plist 
> file but you must also restart the machine.

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