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 <rcharles...@gmail.com> 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. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
