return only some System Prefs shortcuts to default?

hi all 🙂🙂

from macOS Sierra: Use global keyboard shortcuts

i see:

If you want to return all System Prefs shortcuts to their original key combinations, click Restore Defaults.


But i wish to know how i can specifically restore the defaults to just one particular tab or app at a time--

is there a way?

i have been wondering this for a long time, and if perhaps that is what it does,

but i have not tested it out, for fear of losing all the settings i do want to keep!


thanks in advance for your help!

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)

Posted on Mar 8, 2018 9:05 PM

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Mar 9, 2018 7:01 PM in response to dialabrain

hmm... sorry but now i am confused--


first you replied "no" to this question:

" ...how i can specifically restore the defaults to just one particular tab or app at a time--

is there a way?"


but then it sounds like you are saying that's a "Yes", as in i can reset Some system preferences to defaults without messing with other prefs?


maybe, to attempt avoiding further confusion, it might help to give an example(?):

let's say i want to restore the shortcuts for my screenshots:

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but not touch any other shortcuts i created, such as my services:

User uploaded file

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