[averagemac]

In os 9 you had a prefrence file that you could trash if an application was acting funky. How do you go about this in OS X? My adobe illustrator has started acting up and I want to reset the "preferences".

Ant help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

averagemac

[chris v]

Users/username/Library/preferences.

You'll see files named com.applicationname.plist. That's them.

Edit: There's a separate Adobe Illustrator 10 folder in Preferences with Illustrator files in it as well. Don't know why Illustrator needs 2 prefs files-- I guess one for window positions & recently opened files (com.adobe.illustrator.plist) and the other for things like custom key commands and color profiles, etc.)

CV

[averagemac]

Chris --- Thank you so much that worked perfectly!!, Now I can resize objects again.

Be Well

averagemac

[Uncle Skeleton]

the unix-y preferences are generally handled by the "defaults" system, which is a fancy name for a folder of those com.something.whatever.plist files. Many automatic cocoa things like windows and open/save dialogs store their own preferences there. For apps not written specifically for OS X (classic and windows ports), it is not uncommon for them to have already duplicated this functionality by writing their own text file to store their prefs. So if you're writing a program and you make an NSWindow with an autosave name, the NSWindow will write it's position to the defaults database, which creates a plist file. Then the app writes its own preferences the way it did in OS 9, by creating a text file, and that's how you get two preferences files for each app. I assume