PrefEdit 1.2 review

PrefEdit is a utility that allows you to inspect and edit all preference settings for Mac OS X applications.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 1K Developer: Marcel Bresink Price: $0.00 Updated: 29 Jun 2006

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PrefEdit is a utility that allows you to inspect and edit all preference settings for Mac OS X applications. (Note that this is different from the "System Preferences" application which controls the operating system settings only.) The settings are displayed in a browser and can be edited by simple point-and-click operations. You can also do a full-text search on all settings, or clean up unused entries of applications that have been uninstalled.

PrefEdit can access all preference settings of "well-behaved" Carbon and Cocoa applications. Older Mac applications running in the Classic environment used a totally different system for storing preference settings. The settings of such programs do not appear in PrefEdit.

WARNING: If you edit, add or delete preference values of application programs or the Mac OS X operating system, you should know what you are doing. Inappropriate values can cause serious malfunctions in the system which could destroy important data or create other unexpected effects.

What's New:
Corrected compatibility problem with Mac OS X 10.1 where editing a value and then selecting another entry could unintentionally copy the edited value to the newly selected entry.