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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
If you can't be trusted to navigate a hierarchal tree in regedit, you can't be trusted to do it in Finder either.
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The Finder has this wonderful facility called the Trash, so that if you accidentally delete the wrong file, you can restore it. Regedit is not as forgiving, on the whole. Furthermore, there is never any guarantee that the preferences for an application will be stored all in one place in Regedit, or that they will be intelligibly named so that you can tell exactly which ones to delete. Windows programmers, alas, have been known to do some mighty brainless things.
The idea of keeping
all your system metadata in
one gigantic file is so obviously the Wrong Thing that nobody but Microsoft has ever even considered doing it. Whole volumes have been written on the subject.
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Plenty of .plist files live outside your ~/Preferences folder, where you most certainly can do damage.
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True. Those, however, are very seldom .plist files for applications in userland. And even if you do trash a .plist in (let us say) /Library, either the app or the OS will automatically write a new one with the default settings.