If you browse through the user library in OS X Lion, you may see a number of .plist.lockfile files in your preferences folder. Here is what these and other plist subtypes are all about. Topher Kessler ...

Periodically, a problem may occur with a given system setting, or some application, and the common remedy of removing a seemingly obvious preferences "plist" file may not reset the setting. In OS X, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Safari crashes on launch. Mail quits when you try to send a message. What to do? Most savvy Mac users will delete the application’s preferences file, which stores changes made to the program’s default ...

Earlier this month, security researcher Ivan Rodriguez proposed a new security standard for iOS apps, which he named Security.plist. The idea is simple. App makers would create a property list file ...

Continuing my attempts to recover data from my iPhone upgrade disaster. I'm using Data Rescue 3 to scan my Mac, since it recently held the failed backup. So far it looks like I've recovered about 15 ...

After developers discovered that their apps are not currently able to use 120Hz ProMotion refresh rates for all animations, there was confusion over whether it was a limitation imposed for battery ...