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Where are Dashboard Widget preferences actually saved?

This is a followup question to my other widget-related question.
I'd like to check what's actually written into the preferences of the widget. Where is that data actually stored?

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Huxi Avatar asked Jun 21 '09 15:06

Huxi


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The preferences for each individual widget and the dashboard itself are saved in the folder /Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/Library/Preferences/.

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tmh Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 16:09

tmh