Settings don't persist on new Mac

I just wanted to bump this - it is still a problem for me and I have to repeat these steps each time I open MailMate (so I tend to not shutdown...)

Any ideas on how I can remediate? Need any more information?

All of your changes to MailMate should be persisted to ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist (where ~ is your home directory, more detail: Navigating files and folders).

Nearly all Mac property lists are now stored as binary files, meaning you won’t be able to easily examine or edit the contents of a plist (just try opening com.freron.MailMate.plist in TextEdit, you’ll see a lot of garbled text). You can either use an application that can read binary plists or convert to plain text first.

BBEdit opens binary plist files and a whole lot more, it is nagware though, so bear that in mind.

Looking at my com.freron.MailMate.plist I can see for example this change that I made (yeah, the key name is backwards and I might lower the number of seconds too):

    <key>MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread</key>
    <integer>8</integer>

So first thing, make your changes in MailMate, then verify that the plist is being updated with your desired changes.

Ah, thanks Christopher!

For some reason, ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist was a directory on my system. I removed it:

rmdir ~/Library/Preferences/com.freron.MailMate.plist

changed an option and saw a new file created.

I think I'm good now.

You’re very welcome David!

That was even easier (and stranger) than I imagined, I’ve not heard of such a mix up before. Maybe Benny will know more.

Quite right, Benny, that’s a much better way to do it:

defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread 6

And to check a value with read:

defaults read com.freron.MailMate MmMessagesWebViewSecondsToMarkUnread

(Eight seconds is too long. Also, using ZSH and Zim for learning more about the command line tools is really worthwhile.)