![]() ![]() There also isn't one, big repository for browser histories and stuff. The operating system takes care of a lot of housekeeping stuff automatically, and I recommend only performing manual maintenance routines when you suspect your system needs it, and not as a "ritual." Mac OS X also doesn't need to be "defragged" constantly like Windows does. ![]() ![]() For example, Transmit (an FTP program by Panic) stores settings in ~/Library/Preferences under the filename "" - which translates roughly to the company "Panic" followed by the application "Transmit" followed by "plist", which is short for "preference list." Other applications follow a similar naming scheme for their preference files, too - Apple keeps stuff under "", where "applicationname" is the name of the application for which the preferences apply. Preference files are stored in /Library/Preferences and ~/Library/Preferences, with some settings being stored in /Library/Application Support and ~/Library/Application Support. If one preference file gets corrupted, all other applications' preferences will be safe, since they're in different files. Each program on Mac OS X uses its own preference file, keeping one application's settings completely separate from another's. Mac OS X is based off of UNIX, which means that there isn't one, big, monolithic "registry" in which application and preference data is stored.
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