I’m running into a problem with my Mac (as i have both a pc and mac), It seems that Notes is not storing my preferences for things like time for autologout and things like that, it’s alittle annoying to have to reset them every time i restart my computer. the system is a G5 running panther (10.3) and I am using filevault but I was having this problem before I installed Panther, with the 10.2 that came with the machine.
Can someone tell me where they store the notes.ini file?? i’m sure it’s not called that but i don’t know where to look… if you can tell me the path in unix that’s good too, i’m proficient in unix so I will just use VI to edit it for my needs.
thanks.
ps… I love the mac… Unix underneath with lots of apps and good interface.
The file is called Notes Preferences. You can’t edit it with VI because it’s not an ASCII file like notes.ini is. The only way to edit it under OS X is to use a freebie program called NiniX, which you can download from:
Notes preference file is in the startup drive under Users"User logon name"\Library\Preferences folder. You can edit the Notes preference file by using a free utility from IBM call “Notes Preference Editor.” Just make sure to download the version for OS X only.
I’ve removed my Notes installation from my Mac, so I can’t quite remember the files are. However, there are two, a preferences list (*.plist) and the old-school “Notes preferences” file (that’s what it’s called). You should find these somewhere like ~Library/Preferences.
The persistence issue may be down to permissions – if you don’t have write access to the relevant files then the prefs won’t get stored.