Introduction to property lists, used in many places as well as the mainstay of preference files. How to change them safely without risk of conflicts.
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Why changing a property list in Preferences may not change that setting, and how you may not be able to throw the file away.
Causes include code signature errors, app translocation, damaged documents, and corrupted or incompatible preference file.
How to develop predicates, filters and styles interactively, then add them to Ulbow’s settings. And how to transfer those settings to another Mac.
A new Frequency view shows total log entries from different subsystems, helping you mute those that are clogging up your log.
Does your Mac’s log go back far enough to be useful, or is it full of junk? Here’s how to control what takes up space, and a new version of Mints to help.
Before you try editing or trashing that preference file, ask whether macOS in the form of cfprefsd isn’t going to undo your work.
When he put files or folders on his Desktop, although they were shown in the Finder’s listing of its contents, they simply vanished.
You can’t fail to notice changes in System Settings in Ventura, but just what has changed inside it? How do third-party Preference Panes cope?
Ventura’s switch to using Settings is going to be messy in apps, but System Settings will pose serious problems for macOS support material.
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