Custom Profile Issue
Hello Everyone,
I'm building a reference "image" for our environment. I'm trying to add a custom user profile to make the upgrade simpler, safer and more usable in for our users. I've done this before with few problems. However, I'm having an issue with finder preferences. It seems the finder "sidebar" is storing the absolute path to the folders listed there:
/Users/username/Documents
Instead of saving the relative path to those locations
/Users/$USER/Documents or ~/Documents
Same goes for the "Downloads" link on the Dock. You login with a new account and the profile is copied, unfortunately your finder is pointing to "Documents" in a different part of the tree that you can't write to. Not good.
Obviously Apple's generic prefs work around this somehow. If I can't customize these settings I would like to get rid of them so they default values take over. I've tried removing the following plist files from the profile folder (/System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences) without success:
com.apple.spaces.plist
com.apple.xpc.activity2.plist
com.apple.ServicesMenu.plist
com.apple.Loginwindow.plist
com.apple.finder.plist
/ByHost
Any ideas where Apple may be hiding these settings? Is there a better way to do this in El Capitan?
Thanks,
--Dave
iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)