Welcome back to the tutorial series that covers everything you ever wanted to know about preferences (.plist) files. So far, we have explored what .plist files are, how to interpret the content of ...

The new caching of preference settings in OS X Mavericks may frustrate some approaches to manual adjustment of program settings. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

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 ...

Now that 10.14 has made it impractical to edit /System/Library/User Template to preconfigure new users I'm looking for alternatives. The easiest thing to do would seem to be to write a huge bash ...