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Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist

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On 2013-11-23, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> plutil -s  ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist
>
> this will scan though all your .plists and validate the files. Tge
> "-s" eliminates the result if the status is "OK".  You may find you
> have a few corrupt files which you should delete.
>
>
> I have found a handful in my preferences folder with errors and they
> were causing a number of errors in the console.
>
>> 13-11-23 00:04:07	PreferenceSyncClient[6259]	Preference plist
>> was NOT a dictionary.

Thanks for the reminder. It's been ages since I've checked mine.

Looks like my iBooks preferences file is hosed:

/Users/jollyroger/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ibooks.plist: Cannot
parse a NULL or zero-length data

*DELETE*...

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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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