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Setting most (but not all) system preference using the terminal. It made doing clean installs every year so much easier. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfil
by throwaway333444 6y ago
Setting most (but not all) system preference using the terminal. It made doing clean installs every year so much easier. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
- muli_d 6y agoThis is gold. Thanks!
- ta1234567890 6y agoSuper curious about your yearly clean installs. Could you do a short breakdown of your process and the tools you use to manage it? Also, what do you use for backups? Thank you.
- TaqPolymerase 6y agoDo you have a good way of discovering these keys / syncing them with the UI? I like to do the same thing but sometimes change a setting in the UI and don’t know what to update in my script without diffing the entire prefs directory before and after the change.
- niteshade 6y agoAFAIK diffing is the only way, I'd love to hear if anyone has a better technique
- SPBS 6y agoare you mathiasbynens? If so, thank you. I've been using that script as a reference for my own clean install script. Not sure where else I could have found the information, seems like Apple themselves are against documenting it and have in fact deprecated some of the settings in later macOS versions.
- juancn 6y agoWhy do you do clean installs? I've been moving the same MacOS image since 2006. Four machines, without any issues using whatever MacOS provides at the time.
- heyvirgil 6y agoDotfiles are wizard AF. Been using them on my departmental deployments for a while now and will never go back.