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		p_l on March 31, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's comput... I have never seen anyone backup defaults database between macs[1], I have seen a lot of scripts calling setting by setting instead. Which has direct equivalent in "reg" files, to be quite honest. [1] Other than restoring time machine backup to another system or similar cloning setups

cosmic_cheese on March 31, 2025 [–]

It’s not a database, they’re individual files. Most are even plain XML that can be hand written and edited with a text editor.

p_l on April 1, 2025 | [–]

This is not a gotcha, really. An XML file can be considered database just as well (similarly, part of registry on NT is portable between machines).

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