Of all the "under the hood" components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

Many problems with individual applications that occur after a major Mac OS X update can be solved by deleting corrupt .plist files. It appears that this is the case for several apps that are not ...

Property lists are essentially XML files with a .plist extension. Here's how to edit them using the command line in the macOS Terminal app. XML is an open data format which gained popularity in the ...

Does anyone know what if any .plist file the settings for the screen saver are kept in? I think this might be the reason my SS is no longer working.<BR><BR>thanks.

It is sunday and my mind is turned off, why can't I get a network connection with this plist file? All I can get is a socket connection IE the mysql client.<BR><BR><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...