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:
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> Killing cfprefsd seems unnecessarily drastic. Why not use:
>
> defaults delete
>
> as Gary Wade mentioned ear
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”
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> On 30 Apr 2018, at 15:31, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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> Is it worth it (or wise) to zero out preferences and write them prior to
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:
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> 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
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
