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gaelicWizard on October 7, 2006 - 6:07pm

Actually, I believe that those files you reference are, in fact, plists. If you remember back-in-the-day before NeXT bought-out Apple, plist files were *not* XML. They were, in fact, files that looked exactly like the files you’re talking about. Wanna test that out? Try this:

defaults read com.apple.Dock > ~/Desktop/DockPlist.strings

Open the file. Discover that it is your Dock preferences, only in the same “not a plist” format that these QuickPicks files are in. Cool, huh?

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