From: Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...> - 2015-07-02 21:29:01
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On Jul 2, 2015, at 23:11, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >> Since 10.9 preferences are saved a cache on the system. (During a run this will be in memory, not >> in a file, so it is much faster to access.) The files in Library/Preferences are really only a >> backup, so changing them usually makes no difference. This may also explain why you did not see >> any information in them about this. (If you want to force a reset of the (cached) prefs from the >> files, you should run "defaults read -app Skim" from the Terminal after changing the plist file.) >> >> The LSSharedFileList is just for the system to track files apps open, rather than for the app >> itself. Think of the Recent Documents in the Apple menu, I guess. >> > > Just before receiving your message :) I found this thread on the mailing list: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.skim.user/3943 that explained the cache. > So I did a > defaults delete net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks > and then copied the preferences backups over, and lo and behold, I got my files back. The first thing I did was making a session backup. > > Anyway, thanks for the help. > -- > Piet van Oostrum <pi...@va...> > WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ > PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] The .bookmarks.plist file does not contain any of this info. That only contains the actual bookmarks, not the previous session. Christiaan |