Where's the keyboard layout preference file?

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Where's the keyboard layout preference file?

I'm having an irritating problem with my preferred keyboard layout (Canadian) mysteriously reverting to other layouts, even though I have disabled all but the Canadian layout. It's only happening in one of my user accounts. So I'm looking for the keyboard layout .plist file to trash, but I can't find it. Can anybody help me locate it?

Thanks

eMac (1.25GHz USB 2.0), 768MB, Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Jun 5, 2007 4:19 PM

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Answer 1

AlfonsVH

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Jun 5, 2007 4:25 PM in response to Király

~~I think it's the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist file, but I'm not 100% sure.~~

EDIT: It doesn't seem to be the right file anyway.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Jun 5, 2007 5:05 PM in response to Király

You might try com.apple.HIToolbox

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Answer 3

Király Author

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Jun 5, 2007 8:28 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks, I tried trashing that and then logging out/in, but it made no difference to the keyboard layout preferences.

Any other ideas where this pref is stored?

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Answer 4

Jun 5, 2007 10:58 PM in response to Király

Hello,

Check out this link: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75066

When you originally set up your eMac, you would have used the SetUp Assistant... there's information at the link above that might help.

I've searched high and low for a preference file that might be related. You could trash your com.apple.systempreferences.plist but you would have to reset your System Preferences system wide. If you want to try that go to the user account in question. Go here: /Library/Preferences. Locate the com.apple.systempreferences.plist file and drag it to the Desktop. Open System Preferences and reset the keyboard (Canadian) and see if that helps. If that resolves the problem, then that com.apple.systempreferences.plist file should go to the Trash. The next time you open System Preferences your eMac will create a new pref file for you.

Carolyn 🙂

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Király Author

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Jun 5, 2007 11:21 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Turns out that Tom was right after all. I just had to find the right one. It was:

~/Library/Preferences/ ByHost/com.apple.HIToolbox000....plist

It's easy to overlook that ByHost folder! Now that the offending .plist files are in the trash everything's working again.

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Answer 6

Jun 6, 2007 12:17 AM in response to Király

Hi and thank you for posting back with the "fix" ... I will make a note of this in case other users have the same problem.

Thanks!
Carolyn 🙂

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