Mac OS plist problems with keyboard and screen capture?
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- macos
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start with the linked blog reports and the described keyboard configuration and screen-capture symptoms. Inspect the user-level and system-level Library locations mentioned for the relevant plist files, then verify the keyboard remapping and Cmd-Shift-4 clipboard behavior; done means both reported problems are resolved.
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Description
From the blog: I reported a problem with my Mac keyboard configuration, now I can't do screen captures. As I do more searching on each of these problems what's implicated in both cases is a problem of corrupt plists. I don't know very much about these files, but I do understand what they're for. It's possible I did something that blew out some of these files. I've started a thread to ask for help getting to the bottom of this.
The keyboard problem is this -- I want to map Ctrl to Cmd and vice versa, but the change won't stick. I switched the keyboard, rebooted the machine, problem persists. The problem appears to be with the setup of the Mac.
The screen capture problem -- I do a screen capture with Cmd-Shift-4, switch into the Preview app, and the New From Clipboard command is disabled. It's still there after a machine reboot, and the problem isn't only in Preview, I can't paste into the browser either.
I've read lots of support queries but I don't have either of the plist files people keep pointing to.
I've looked in my user-level Library and the system-level one.
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