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Office 2016 for one mac3/14/2023 ![]() Do not use direct manipulation of plist files on disk to set preferences. We should follow the model of the developers: use either the defaults or CFPreferences methods provided by Apple (either from Python or C/Objective-C/Swift) to set this. Applications need not know or care where a preference actually gets stored, they simply ask the preferences system to handle reading and writing preferences. Storage location and format of capital-P OS X Preferences, however, is an internal implementation detail that developers aren’t really concerned with. Mac sysadmins also tend to get hung up on plists and their paths, when it comes to preferences stored by the OS. ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/Preferences/ They happen to be sandboxed apps, so they actually end up getting stored inside a given application’s sandbox container. While this might be the case, it seems like Office stores the “first-run” settings as standard OS X preferences within each application’s preferences. There has been recent grumbling online about Microsoft’s use of a registry-like format stored in an SQLite3 database for its user “registration” information, stored deep within a group container, and I’ve seen some assumptions that other preferences live here. Welcome dialog on first launch of Word 2016.
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