For Macs, we not only think different, but we schedule our calendar different too. Instead of spring-cleaning our Macs with everyone else in the Spring, this is the time that we’re frantically trying to work out whether there are more recent versions of old apps, and which old files we should move to archive. This is because, sometime over the next few weeks or months, many of us will upgrade to the latest version of macOS.
I’m pretty good when it comes to archiving old documents: I don’t, so have to keep upgrading my storage. That saves me a great deal of time, and brings wonderful surprises like my recent rediscovery of a set of PDFs containing all the AltiVec manuals for PowerPC processors. They were so engrossing that you nearly went without any Mac articles here for a couple of days, while I rejoiced in the AltiVec assembly language instruction splat.
But I really must get to grips with all those old preference files. There are currently over 3,200 of them – files and folders – in the Preferences folder in my Home folder’s Library. Some were last modified as long ago as 9 April 2001, which curiously is named OpenWithJoy.plist. That app is so old that even its name doesn’t ring a bell any more.
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