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10.9: Preferences are cached
Authored by: jgj on Oct 25, '13 08:54:33PM
That doesn't work, unfortunately.

I found that if the process "cfprefsd" is killed, the cache is cleared and refilled with what's in the .plist files when it auto-restarts. However, there's more than one such process; there's one for "user" and one for "root" and perhaps more. I only kill the one belonging to me.

I now have this in my bash .profile:

alias fixpref='killall -u yourusername cfprefsd'

It's been working like a charm so far. I hope someone figures out what's really going on here. The man page for "cfprefsd" is useless.

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