With Preview in Mountain Lion, I carelessly checked the box –
[√] Do not show this message again
– imagining that the preference was for just one volume.
Then realised that the warning (the sheet):
- no longer appears for Preview, with other volumes that do not support permanent version storage
- continues to appear for apps other than Preview, with the volume where I don't require the warning.
In other words, I imagined wrong. The preference may be app-specific, not volume-specific.
Please:
- how do I regain the warnings in Preview?
Already I sped through ~/Library/Preferences
sorted by modification date, and opened a few files including com.apple.finder.plist
but at a glance:
- I can't find any
.plist
with content that includes the string revision
If the preference is elsewhere in com.apple.finder.plist
: where?
(I'd prefer to not abandon that file – it's 35 KB with 3,417 lines.)
Also I viewed the content of recently modified .plist
files relating to Preview. Unless I'm missing something, nothing relating to revisions, versions or storage. com.apple.Preview.plist
is not recently modified –
– and within those nine, the two that are recently modified seem to contain nothing relating to permanent version storage:
Any other ideas on how to correct my mistake? – Thanks
Best Answer
For apps that are not sandboxed
Example:
To regain warnings about permanent version storage for Apple Pages
Quit the app, then a one-line command in Terminal:
– in the
Preferences
area that's familiar to users of Snow Leopard and less.For apps that are sandboxed
The operating system uses a different approach to containment of some preferences:
~/Library/Containers/<bundle_id>/Data/Library/Preferences
Example:
To regain warnings about permanent version storage for Apple Preview
Quit the app, then a one-line command in Terminal:
Thoughts
I should have thought first of
~/Library/Containers
when, in the question, I observed –– but I didn't realise what was going on until after I used fseventer to visualise writes for a different user of the OS.
References
App Sandbox Design Guide: Migrating an App to a Sandbox
A visual record of me finding the relevant key in the
.plist
for PagesA visual record of me finding the relevant key in the
.plist
for Preview