lockfile

Lockfiles and other plist file subtypes in OS X Lion

When troubleshooting your system, or when attempting to mirror settings from one system to another, you may end up browsing through your user library, and specifically through the Preferences folder within it to copy preferences files for your applications. This procedure is fairly straightforward, but when browsing through your preferences folder you may see a few unexpected file types, including ones with strings of characters appended to the ends of them and in Lion a new "lockfile" type.

MacFixIt reader "Chris" wrote in, asking:

Can you please provide an explanation of the new plist.lockfile files … Read more