The Get Info Panel
The Get Info panel shows information about the selected domain in the “Open Domain Quickly” or Find panel, or the information about the current document.
If Pref Setter can locate the application a particular preference file belongs to, it will display that application’s icon and path in the “Application Info” section; otherwise it will display the generic application icon and a message stating that the application path could not be found.
Regardless of whether or not the application’s path can be found, the Get Info panel will display the rest of the information, which is about the preference file, not the application it belongs to, in the “Property List Info” section.
- Size:
- Displays the size on the hard drive, and the actual size in parentheses.
- Where:
- Shows the path to where the parent folder for the preference file is located
- Created:
- Displays the date the preference file was created.
- Modified:
- Displays the date the preference file was last modified.
- Accessed:
- Displays the date the preference file was last accessed.
Note that many things actually access preference files. While an application may not have been launched in a long while (or may have been deleted) the preference file may still have a recent access date. - Permissions
- Displays a string specifying what sort of permissions you have.
- Owner / Privilege
- Displays the privileges of the preference file.
Items of Note:
The NSRegistrationDomain file is a special item. It doesn’t really exist on the file system, so if you get info on it, it will only display the message (File is in memory only.) on the Size: line. You can also possibly get this message if a preference file has been deleted but is still listed in the “Open Domain Quickly” window. In that case, the file really doesn’t exist and can’t be opened; you can reload the “Open Domain Quickly” window to remove the entry for that file in this case.
If you have multiple items selected in the “Open Domain Quickly” window or the Find panel, the Get Info panel will display a tally of all those items together. The only information available is the size of these files added together. It is not possible to have more than one document active so it will only display info for one item for documents.
In the “Open Domain Quickly” window, the size for a folder is not displayed. If you have multiple items selected, and one of them is a folder, the folder is skipped while tallying the total size. This means items inside a folder are not added to the total size. If you wish for them to be added, expand the folder and add its items to the selection.
The Get Info panel will show the selection of the currently active window. If you have the “Open Domain Quickly” window active, it will display the selection there, or it will display the selection of the Find panel if that is the active window, or it will display the info of the current document if a document window is currently active. Switching between these windows while the Get Info panel is open will switch the info shown.