[X-Unix] Can't rm or mv Library/Preferences/*.plist files?

[Stroller]

Hi William,

Many thanks for your reply. I was just in the process of doing some more Googling about this when I received it, so I'll reserve some further comments until I know more, or we hear from other members of the list.

To be going on with, I'll just reply to one thing you said:


On 28 Jan 2014, at 01:58 pm, William H. Magill <whmagill at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2- plutil no longer exists under Mavericks. (I use Text Wrangler.) ---  I'm not completely certain what the fact that Apple pulled plutil from Mavericks implies.

I think you may be mistaken, as it seems to be installed here. 

In the first or two after I installed Mavericks, I had an surprising experience like the one illustrated in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZMpaBsC.png

I think this happened to me when I was trying to run an md5 or diff on a file - it wasn't the `gcc` command that caused the dialogue box to open, but something else. I just allowed Xcode to install, and I think plutil was installed as part of Xcode.

Stroller.