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Preferential Treatment was built from a discussion at www.macintouch.com, this application will check your preference files (both in your user's preference folder and the system's preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool.

If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash. You may also double-click on a file in the found files table to open it in the application of your choice (you can designate the default application from the preferences). There is also an option to save the results of a scan to a text file.

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WHAT'S NEW
Fixed a minor Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) incompatibility that prevented the application from recognizing administrative user accounts.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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Developer:Jon Nathan
Downloads:41,932
  - Version d/l:7,070
Utilities:AppleScript
License:Free
Date:06 Nov 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
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    Feb 28 2009

    RORO01  What we really need is an application which detect preference files which are not associated with any application, i.e files of applications where we have deleted the applications but forgot to delete their preference files.  
    (Version 1.1.8)

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    Nov 7 2007

    FRANçOIS PELLERIN  Grat product! Thanks.

    The developper could write a ReadMeFirst file to tell the dummies like myself exactly what to do with the files included in the upgrade...  
    (Version 1.1.8)

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    Oct 30 2006

    DOC RENAUD  And you think you could live without stuffit expander installed ? Good luck :-)  
    (Version 1.1.7)

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    Aug 20 2006
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    SIDETRACKED  Works just fine for me in Tiger.

    A very simple, straightforward way to check for problems in preference files. Already was able to head off a couple of problems before they became real problems. I sent a donation.  
    (Version 1.1.6)

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    Aug 24 2005

    ANONYMOUS  Nice utility, but the developer should allow download of the application in .zip or .dmg archive instead of .sit, so that Tiger users aren't forced to download Stuffit.  
    (Version 1.1.4)

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    Oct 20 2005

    JONATHAN NATHAN  This file is available in a compressed dmg format:  
    (Version 1.1.4)

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    Oct 20 2005

    JONATHAN NATHAN  http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/dist/pt.dmg

    (Not sure why this wasn't included in the previous comment.)  
    (Version 1.1.4)

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    Nov 2 2005

    ANONYMOUS  Tiger users will need Stuffit Exp. anyway. There are far too much archives in sit-format around. And if Apple would have adopted the zip-format a long time ago we wouldn't have the sit-format now.   
    (Version 1.1.5)

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    Nov 3 2005

    A MARTIN  A file compressed in .sit format becomes smaller than the same file compressed as .zip.

    Especially if the format is .sitx  
    (Version 1.1.6)

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    May 10 2006

    SWORDFISH  yes but .sit gets corrupted easier and Stuffit is bad software :P  
    (Version 1.1.6)

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    May 2 2005

    ANONYMOUS  PT doesn't work with OS X 10.4 Tiger. Authentication to check System prefs is broken.

    A workaround is to run the program as root either in the terminal or get the freeware program Pseudo. Just drop PT onto the Pseudo window and it runs as root, problem solved.  
    (Version 1.1.3)

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    May 22 2005

    TOMCAT  Version 1.1.4 is compatible with Tiger...  
    (Version 1.1.4)

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    Nov 3 2005

    RICHARD ADOLPHSON  Pseudo is shareware $15.

    I suspect that the latest version of PT is, in fact, Tiger-compatible. Check it out.  
    (Version 1.1.6)

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    Oct 7 2004
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    SEAN  Great!!Thank you so much John!  
    (Version 1.1.1)

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    Sep 27 2004

    JOE WEAVER  Jonathan is a great developer and a good man. I released a program similar to his (I didn't know his existed), he downloaded it, and e-mailed me with some suggestions to improve it! I couldn't believe it, the "competition" is helping me! Truly a good man.

    I'm in the Navy and and programming is totally new to me. I have only been scripting and programming for 4 days so he is helping me along. I can't believe it!

    Thanks again Jonathan.  
    (Version 1.0.2.1)

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    Aug 10 2004

    MZA INC.  I click to open app. Window appears asking for a donation. Click to later or donate. Nothing happens. App disappears. Does anyone know what gives? Have downloaded app 3 times from here and Johnathan's website with same result. Is there a preference file that I need to trash?  
    (Version 1.0.1)

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    May 25 2004
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    JAMES  Note to the developer: this is a great app, that does what it says well, runs smoothly, and is obviously a great price! Thanks for developing something like this for those of us (and others I suppose), who know a little, but not enough to do some digging inside to find any potential problems. Again, my thanks to the developer!  
    (Version 1.0.1)

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