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10.1.5
Authored by: VEGx on Sep 19, '02 10:43:59AM

If you would have paid attention you'd knew that also in 10.1 the .plist files have this very strange entry. Not always, but sometimes they have. I don't know what it is all about... What sound???



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Word to the Wise...
Authored by: jeffulri on Sep 19, '02 11:17:36AM

Or unwise as the case may be. This .plist hint is rather light on the explanation side. I deleted ALL the .plist fies in my users preference directory under the delusion that Mac OS X 10.2.1 no longer used them. I'm a smart person (humor me), and that's what the article seemed to indicate. Boy was I in for a big suprise. My login items, gone - app window placements, gone - desktop folder placements, gone - you get the picture. PERHAPS, and I'm NOT going to be the one to test this, thank you, the artcle ought to indicate that you need to OPEN EVERY .PLIST you intend to delete and make sure it ONLY contains the information noted in the example. Otherwise, you'll be in the same boat as me - having to reinstall a BOATLOAD of software to make ssure the login items are correct and referenced properly and fiddle with all the damned window placement, etc. settings again.



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Word to the Wise...
Authored by: Anonymous on Sep 21, '02 03:30:09AM

This article did not lead me to believe that all .plist files were obsolete and could be deleted. I point out two specific points that work against this: one, that the author noted each file to be deleted was very small in size, and, two, that he referred to a "few extra" .plist files at the end of the article. With all due respect, I would say that what happened to you was due more to sloppy reading than to sloppy writing.



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