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| From | Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Trick: validate the preferences plist |
| Date | 2013-11-23 17:28 -0500 |
| Organization | Ain’t No Organization Here! |
| Message-ID | <l6ra70$8k6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <52905e70$0$49326$c3e8da3$c8b7d2e6@news.astraweb.com> |
On 11-23-2013, 02:51, JF Mezei 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.
Maybe the tool is choking on versions of the format that are new?
man page says it can handle version 1 of the XML format, version 1 of
the binary format, and JSON format.
Most of my few errors said "unexpected 'b' on line one." But the file
was binary. Line one after conversion to XML ?
That file starts with "bplist"
If I remove the 'b' and check again, I get "unexpected 'p' on line one."
But a random check of four unreported files showed they all started
with "bplist" And plutil -p shows that line one is a single char '{'
indicating that the /bplis' is part of some handshaking characters.
Odd.
--
Wes Groleau
“Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change;
the courage to change the one I can;
and the wisdom to know it's me.”
— unknown
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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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