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 ...

Many problems with individual applications that occur after a major Mac OS X update can be solved by deleting corrupt .plist files. It appears that this is the case for several apps that are not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Early last week, Boy Genius Report claimed that Apple has been testing a 4G LTE-enabled iPhone with carriers, and pointed to an "internal iOS test build" of one of Apple's major mobile partners. In ...