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10.6: No more easily-found hidden preferences
Authored by: robg on Aug 31, '09 10:14:10AM
Via email, a reader suggested this version:
$ afscexpand -c appname | strings
While that worked to extract strings, I still didn't find the example defaults term in the resulting file. Bummer.

-rob.

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10.6: No more easily-found hidden preferences
Authored by: gloubibou on Aug 31, '09 02:06:33PM

I have tried this on SystemUIServer.app in hopes to find a way to disable the Spotlight menu item without disabling Spotlight itself.

Somehow SystemUIServer.app knows it needs to load /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle which holds the Spotlight menu.

What I don't know is if this hard-coded or if it can be configured. Actually disabling would be good enough.

Up to know I was stuck at SystemUIServer.app being compressed and thus yielding no strings. With the above command, I do get strings. Yet nothing resembles a key to a preference that could be related to search or Spotlight.



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