Preference Key Reader

[dan-snelson]

A copy-pasta function to output all vendor preference keys

Background

While implementing feedback from Søren Theilgaard, we needed an easy way to output every key / value pair from any vendor’s preference files, in either the user or system domain.

# readPreferenceKeys "vendor name" "domain [ system | user]"

readPreferenceKeys "apple" "system"

readPreferenceKeys "apple" "user"

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[sdagley]

@dan-snelson My personal favorite tool for examining all of the settings in a preference domain is @arminBriegel 's PrefsTool which will tell you the source for each setting. Armin's repo for the tool hasn't been updated for Python 3 so here's my Gist of it updated to run with a MacAdmins Python 3 install: prefs3.py