On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 03, 2013, at 08:19 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 15:59, Ivan Werning wrote:
>
> Is there a quick way to reset all the hidden preferences? Or must I go one
> by one using the CLI.
>
>
> Remove the file ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.plist
> (this resets all preferences, do this while Skim is not running.)
>
>
> Just FYI: this no longer works on 10.9 (and likely not on 10.8). The OS
> now caches plist files, so directly editing or removing them doesn't work.
> This cost me a lot of debugging time a few weeks ago, and I didn't figure
> out why until I saw this cocoa-dev thread:
>
> http://prod.lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2013/Nov/msg00320.html
>
>
> https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=mavericks+caching+preferences
>
> You have to use the defaults command in Terminal to manipulate preferences
> (or CFPreferences/NSUserDefaults from C/Obj-C/PyObjC).
>
> Adam
>
Indeed, this conforms with my experience.
It was not so easy to remove the files (for some reason I could trash them,
but the trash did not let me empty it, until I rebooted) and Skim.app, when
loaded, would continue to have these preference options.
Finally, I did manage to really delete them. But when I moved the files
back, I wasn't able to get the hidden preferences back. Skim.app behaved as
it would with default preferences.
Skim.app was closed during all these delete/move operations.
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