Most programs and services you run in OS X will save preferences to disk as a property list (.plist) file in your account’s hidden Library > Preferences folder. Since these files contain settings that are loaded and interacted with as the program is run, if a fault exists either in a specific setting or in the structure of the file itself, then a program may experience hangs, crashes, the inability to save and retrieve settings, or other odd behaviors.
To fix these problems if they crop up, a common recommendation is to remove the program’s associated preference file. These are located in your Library folder, which can be accessed by holding the Option key, clicking the Go menu in the Finder, and then choosing the Library from there. In the folder that opens, you can navigate to the Preferences directory and then locate and remove the property list that corresponds to the program you are using. These plist files are usually named after the developer and application names, so for instance, the preference file for Apple’s TextEdit program is called “com.apple.TextEdit.plist”
The preference and support files for InDesign have similar locations. These files are primarily grouped into three locations, though there is data in additional locations as noted below. The Application folder: At the location of the application, or executable, are subfolders for presets and other. Does InqScribe work with Mac OSX Lion (10.7)? Does InqScribe work with Mac OSX Mountain Lion (10.8)? How can I send a bug report from InqScribe? How do I access the /Library folder in Mac OSX Lion (10.7) or later? How do I find my preferences file? I'm getting an error: 'QTCF.dll is missing'. How can I fix that? InqScribe is crashing.
General preferences. In the General pane, you can change basic Photos preferences. For example, you can set whether photos are shown in a “summarized” view, select whether imported items are copied into your library, select whether GPS information is included with photos, and more. Jul 25, 2011 18 ways to view the /Library folder in Lion and Mountain Lion. With the inner workings of Mac OS X often open /Library and start. That opens your Library folder: Launch System Preferences. Transfer User Preferences. We will deal with your Library folder next. Under macOS, user preferences can be stored in a couple of places. The canonical location is /Library/Preferences, and that’s the directory most macOS system applications use. Click Go to folder in Finder’s Go menu.
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The property lists for your applications’ preferences are stored in this folder.
There are several ways to remove these preference files, if needed. The first is to do so manually by dragging them to the trash and emptying the trash. However, if you have the name of the preference file (otherwise known as the application’s “domain”), then you can target this in the Terminal using the “defaults” command to delete the plist’s contents, or the plist itself:
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