Deleting IE's preferences

Sep 06, '01 12:49:33PM

Contributed by: robg

Reader Tom Ransom wrote in with a problem and a solution -- how do you delete the Internet Explorer preferences in OS X? He was unable to download from any passive FTP hosts via IE, and thought trashing the preferences might cure the problem.

The typical method would be to trash com.microsoft.explorer.plist from ~/Library/Preferences and that should do the trick. Tom tried this, but it had no affect on his problem. Through some detective work in the Terminal (since prefs files are now text-based XML and easily browsable), he determined that IE's prefs are actually stored in the file com.apple.internetconfig.plist in your Preferences directory.

So if you're having trouble with passive FTP, try trashing that file (perhaps along with com.microsoft.explorer.plist) and relaunching IE. It worked for Tom!

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