[X4U] Finder not responding (semi resolved)

[Ed Gould]

On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Jens Selvig wrote:

> ----------------------SNIP-----------------------
>
> I would be shocked if any of the hard drive tools like TechTool or  
> Disk Warrior would  find a corrupted plist. The plist it self, as a  
> file is not damaged, it is the data inside the file that is damaged.
>
> Jens
>
> Jens Selvig
> ...Lost in Montana...
>
Jens:

If the reading of the documentation is correct both products say they  
will fix plist. I do remember watching the screen when it got to the  
plist files and I did see both products read the plist file and (like  
I said) did not report any errors. I do not know enough about what is  
inside the plist file. I would *GUESS* that it contains the defaults  
you want for the finder to show ie icons list format etc for each  
folder. Like I said it is a guess. I do vaguely remember hearing  
about the PLIST file that it contains "some high level language" that  
is run any time you invoke the process that uses the file. When I  
looked at it with BBEDIT, indeed it was some sort of defaults but my  
memory is sketchy as I was in a hurry to to get the system back up in  
a hurry to get some work out. It was not JAVA that I can safely say  
but something closer to HTML.

At the ALSOFT web site (www.alsoft.comm/DiskWarrior/details8.html ,I  
founds this: Finds corrupted Preference (.plist) files (.)

Ed


Ed