Preview preference bug? No "com.apple.preview.plist" per se

Launch Preview and change its preferences. Is the file created?

So when you quit Preview and relaunch it, the change to the preferences is not saved?

The operative question here is whether your Preview settings are saved across launches. That's what the preference file is for. You haven't answered that question.

If you want to delete the Preview preference file, quit Preview.

Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.

Drag or copy – do not type – the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:

ls Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist

You should get one line of output below what you entered, an echo of the file path.

If that's what you get, enter the following command in the same way as before:

rm !$

Norman, recommend you read page 33 of this document.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/AppSan dboxDesignGuide/AppSandboxDesignGuide.pdf

Hope that helps you but being this topic is so old probably more useful for others.

Norman,

I encounterred the very same problem (with Mountain Lion), and found a solution by looking into an another user library on the same computer.

First of all the com.apple.Preview.plist file is located in

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Previe w.plist (and not in the preferences folder)

Second, I had a permission problem with the plist file and solved the whole thing by restoring the proper permission.

Hope it will help you a year after your post.

Thanks very much. Did you restore the proper permission by deleting the entire com.apple.Preview folder including "container.plist" and "Data" subfolder?

Respectfully, Norm

Norman,

The anser is no, I first repaired the permissions using the disk utility tool. It seems it was not enough and I simply opened the get info window to set manually the premission for the "preview container" folder and its content.

best regards

Patrick

I also had trouble finding the Preview preferences file. I went to this directory under Mavericks (10.9.5), and I got exactly what I wanted. I opened the prefs file:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Previe w.plist

Using the Property List Editor, I changed "antiAliasing" from 1 to 0. Now, the bitmap images can be zoomed in any amount and never antialias. It doesn't affect anti-aliasing of PDF files.