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DESCRIPTION
PrefEdit is a utility that allows you to inspect and edit all preference settings for Mac OS X applications. The settings are displayed in a browser and can be edited by simple point-and-click operations. You can also do a full-text search on all settings, or clean up unused entries of applications that have been uninstalled.

PrefEdit can access all preference settings of "well-behaved" Carbon and Cocoa applications. Older Mac applications running in the Classic environment used a totally different system for storing preference settings. The settings of such programs do not appear in PrefEdit.

WARNING: If you edit, add or delete preference values of application programs or the Mac OS X operating system, you should know what you are doing. Inappropriate values can cause serious malfunctions in the system which could destroy important data or create other unexpected effects.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0:
  • The application has been redesigned completely. There are too many detail changes to list here. Only the most important changes are mentioned.
  • Version 2 has become a shareware application. Version 1.2 is still available as a freeware product.
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is the minimum operating system version. Previous releases of Mac OS X are no longer supported.
  • By user request, the application now also includes a property list editor. All file formats for plist files are fully supported.
  • By user request, changes to the Mac OS X preferences database now require an explicit confirmation in form of a simulated "save" operation.
  • A viewer for Mac OS X Preference Manifest Files has been integrated. It supports the complete feature set. When editing preference settings, the application is automatically aware of manifests available in the system installation.
  • The application displays automatic warnings when other applications make changes to the preference database which could be in conflict with the settings the user is currently editing.
  • PrefEdit is no longer limited to user-specific, non-host-specific preference settings. It can also work with host-specific and system-wide settings.
  • On demand, PrefEdit can compute the complete preference set effective for a particular application, visualizing Mac OS X's full preference search path.
  • The user can now sort and filter the list of preference domains and keys. PrefEdit can automatically determine the correct domain for a specified application.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Developer:Marcel Bresink
Downloads:3,658
  - Version d/l:1,063
Utilities:File Management
License:Shareware
Date:18 Aug 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
****½
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Apr 12 2006
****½

ALANR  I like this very much. Sometimes I'll ask a developer about something and they'll tell me it's available via a hidden pref and to set it like so...

defaults write com.xxxx.yyyy BlaBlaBla

I don't much like black box solutions, I want to know what's there before I change it and I want to see that it's changed after I execute the command.

This lets me see what I'm doing or about to do and lets me see that it's been done.

My ratings reflect the fact that it's new to me and I don't know what other features could be offered and I don't know how stable it is yet.  
(Version 1.2)

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