I'm a bit loathe to scrap all the preferences, which would include my carefully wrought "Signatures," for instance. Isn't there a way simply to reset one of them, the one mentioning html coding, for ex. so I can "draw" smiley faces again? ;-) -don On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote: > On 2003-10-24 18:52, Brian Pearce wrote: > >>> Well, I checked out Preferences and the one place in Composing where >>> it says html is checked...? Do X apps use preferences that can be >>> scrapped and rewritten the way OS 9 did? >> >> Yes, though sometimes they can be slightly more difficult to locate >> because of the naming conventions. Look in the Library folder in your >> Users folder for a folder called "Preferences." > > In this case, the file you want is > "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist". > donald henry hinkle ------------------------------------- Author of OKLAHOMA, a brief story about a state, ISBN 0-7660-5138-2, and RONALD REAGAN, a biography of the 40th President of the USA, ISBN 0-7660-5112-9, both published in 2003 by Enslow. Also, check out http://villagedit.home.att.net