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Authored by: EatingPie on Nov 03, '04 07:55:44AM

A simple solution to a complex problem. Great!! Thanks tych0!

HOWEVER, there are some SERIOUS caveats here that may have "severe" consequences. The GlobalPreferences have a lot of random stuff in there, so it's important to know what this is. Here's an (incomplete) list of what the GlobalPreferences holds, and you may or may not be effected by these.

The Default System Font.

Mouse and Trackpad "Scaling" - sensitivity / speed.

Trackpad tap-to-click.

Scrollbar Arrows - two arrows at top of scroll bar? One arrow at top/bottom? etc.

Font size at which Smoothing gets applied. For example, I have this set to 128 (points) because I'm basically DISABLING font smoothing.

Selection highlight color.

The list of recent folders, appearing in the Apple Menu.

Favorites for font styles.

Favorites for colors, including styles and colors you've saved in the grid at the bottom of the Colors dialog.

That's only a partial list, but if you have any such settings it may be better to lonly delete the appletalk preferences. They are actually indented and begin with the following in the .Globalpreferences.plist:


	<key>com.apple.AppleShareClientCore</key>
	<dict>

Just open the .GlobalPreferences.plist with your fave editor, and have at it.

-Pie

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-Pie


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