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Preserve app preferences and settings when using FileVault
Authored by: kitebuggy on Nov 24, '09 02:16:49AM

Since the original submission of this hint some further information has come to my attention. Plus there have been some great comments here...

@Typhoon14, I hadn't read your original post properly, else my approach would have been different. Your interpretation of the bug is correct (file read of settings attempted before FV is mounted, hence fails to take these settings into account) and you're also spot on w.r.t. me having an upgrade installation rather than a clean install. Thanks for this tip, I shall give the clean install a whirl this evening.

@ragmaxone, thanks, your suggestion to copy the file back and forth at login/logout is an interesting one, but now somewhat superseded by Typhoon14's.

@dennis.se, my understanding is that the user's plist table is constructed from various sources. The lsregister command that Typhoon14 references in an earlier hint shows these sources as usage instructions when you run it without arguments, i.e. :

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister

The sources are system, local, network, and user.

By editing the system plist for example (in the location in my original post above) would allow you to set default properties for a whole range of users, and that each user would inherit upon login. Please note that the user may also override one or more settings according to their preference, but the other settings would remain as set by you.

System administrators must also be able to set these settings across a range of managed machines, though this is beyond the scope of this comment and I will leave the 'how' as an exercise to the reader...

Thanks for all your suggestions and comments - this is what makes Mac OS X Hints so worthwhile for me! :-)

Edited on Nov 24, '09 02:22:42AM by kitebuggy


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Preserve app preferences and settings when using FileVault
Authored by: barefootguru on Nov 25, '09 07:54:40PM

As per a couple of other posters I was plagued by this until 10.6, since then it's been fine.

Oddly enough my settings did revert right after upgrading 10.6.1 to 10.6.2. I hope it was a one-of!

(I submitted this as bug 6247025 and it was marked as a duplicate of 5071918)

Edited on Nov 25, '09 07:55:19PM by barefootguru



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