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Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist
Date 2013-11-23 19:48 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2013-11-23, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:
> On 11-23-2013, 12:58, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> Looks like my iBooks preferences file is hosed:
>>
>> /Users/jollyroger/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist: Cannot
>> parse a NULL or zero-length data
>
> Since iBooks (hmmm, wasn't the name singular when it first appeared on 
> iP* ?) is brand new, that probably merely means the file is empty.
>
> That's what it meant for me:
>
> iMac:~ wgroleau$ wc Library/Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist
>         0       0       0 Library/Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist
>
> Which actually surprised me, because I have moved things around, renamed 
> some of them, and read some of them.  I would have expected "last page" 
> to be stored here, as well as "which collection"

You're right. Mine is empty as well.

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Trick: validate the preferences plist JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-11-23 02:51 -0500
  Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-23 17:58 +0000
    Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-23 13:15 -0500
      Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-11-23 19:48 +0000
      Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-11-23 12:38 -0800
  Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-23 17:28 -0500
    Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-11-23 21:09 -0500

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