Description
Talking about the main
preferences and settings-storage system in OS X, it is the “defaults” which
save values in binary or ascii-encoded XML property lists. You can see it in
user account’s “Preferences” folder. But, in OS they exist in other locations
and for other purposes.
Solution:
For programs and system services,
defaults can be changed from OS settings panel. But, they can modified by hand commonly
and then reload the service or program to apply the change. You can perform
this for standard settings as well as for enabling hidden settings.
Invoking this type of setting
needs to run the relevant defaults command in terminal to write it and then
reloading the running command. There are some defaults settings that are very
complex to create and manage by the standard defaults command.
Well, in such cases you need to
edit the plist file manually using a text editor. But, it will not work fine in
Mavericks. This is because Mavericks stores the defaults settings. It lets you
fast and reliable way of managing settings by programs.
You can notice that when you use
defaults commands then it will result in settings being directly used. This is
because it caches the settings along with writing them to disk.
However, you may notice that
using the defaults command itself will result in settings being immediately
used, as it will properly cache the settings in addition to writing them to disk.
Later, the defaults command will properly
cache the preferences file and you can use it in combination with a text editor
so as to implement a complex changes to a preference file. For this, after
saving the changes in text editor you can run the defaults read command on the
plist file to list its contents.
Let’s take an example, if you
would like to change the Dock’s position setting using text editor then open it
and change the “pinning” and “orientation” keys. Finally, save the changes. Then,
run either of the following two commands. This will read the Dock’s plist file
and re-cache them. Before launching Dock again, do this and the settings will
be implemented when the program get reloads.
defaults read
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock
defaults read com.apple.dock
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