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<p dir="auto">On 24 Jan 2023, at 13:09, Glenn Parker wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">On 23 Jan 2023, at 19:13, John Cooper wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">But why bother with counters.txt and stdout and stdin? I would suggest quitting MailMate, making a copy of ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist, editing the copy directly in a reliable text editor such as BBEdit…</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">You could try that, but you’ll quickly notice that com.freron.MailMate.plist is a binary file.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Almost never used by myself but there is another tool in the box that’s meant to help here —</p>
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PlistBuddy – read and write values to plists
SYNOPSIS
PlistBuddy [-cxh] file.plist
DESCRIPTION
The PlistBuddy command is used to read and modify values inside of a plist. Unless specified by
the -c switch, PlistBuddy runs in interactive mode.
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<p dir="auto">Option -a outputs the plist file in human ‘readable’ form</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards<br>
Gavan</p>
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