topic Re: MacOS place of .plist in Installation & update

MacOS place of .plist

runxel — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:53:55 GMT

While Windows has the registry, MacOS uses those weird .plists. You can edit them to get some "hidden" behavior of Archicad.

There is an old knowledgebase article, but the information in there is not up to date.

So, long story short: WHERE has the .plist gone?

In other news: The arc resolution of shells in AC 27 is still shite and still can not be adjusted. Sigh.

Re: MacOS place of .plist

MinhNguyen — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:00:03 GMT

Other than trying to find its location, I assume what you want is to actually edit the PLIST?

There's a guide for that (and I realize you linked the same article as well): https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Altering-ARCHICAD-behavior-Registry-or-Preferences/ta-p/304121

and it was updated quite recently, so the information is valid

P/s: I can try to find them tonight, however if my memory serves me right, without a Plist editor it's quite difficult to edit it anyway

Re: MacOS place of .plist

BerndSchwarzenbacher — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 09:04:11 GMT

Hi Luc,

I found mine for AC27 ARM here:

~/Library/Preferences/com.graphisoft.AC-ARM\ 27.0.0\ INT\ RC1.plist

Re: MacOS place of .plist

runxel — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 11:32:57 GMT

Hey @BerndSchwarzenbacher, thanks, I now realized why I couldn't find it.

Sorry @MinhNguyen: The info there IS NOT true!

The correct location is the one Bernd posted: "~/Library/Preferences/" – note the tilde in front! (= user directory).

It is not in the similar sounding system location "/Library/Preferences/" which also exists.

It is true that editing a .plist file is a hassle on its own. However I found this neat VSCode extension that works very well. It will present the .plist in XML format where you can do seemless editing.

Re: MacOS place of .plist

MinhNguyen — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 13:22:49 GMT

hmm, you're absolutely right. I'm pretty sure the original version got that ~ character, as later down the article the full link was mentioned, which is <current user>/Library/Preferences