User level: Level 1 (4 points)one of my apps is not working. i was told to delete their plst file. it does nor show up when i search for it. Does anyone know where it is now stored.
Posted on Sep 23, 2026 12:58 PM
User level: Level 3 (964 points)Sep 23, 2026 9:35 PM in response to indydil
The important distinction here is that a .plist is not necessarily the same thing as the app’s saved-state data, and macOS 26 makes this especially easy to confuse. ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.savedState is a saved application state bundle, not the conventional preferences plist you’d normally remove to reset an app.... the actual preference domain would typically be under ~/Library/Preferences/, with a name such as com.britonleap.Embrilliance.plist.
Also, Finder’s search index is not authoritative for files inside ~/Library, so not finding something through Spotlight does not prove it isn’t there. I’d check both locations directly with Finder’s Go to Folder or Terminal (ls -la ~/Library/Preferences/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.plist ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.savedState)... if neither exists, the application may be storing its configuration elsewhere, using cfprefsd/the preferences subsystem rather than maintaining an obvious standalone file, or the bundle identifier you were given may simply be wrong.
In other words, I wouldn’t delete the Saved Application State folder just because someone called it a plist... first identify exactly which preference/state domain Embrilliance is actually using.
User level: Level 10 (162,806 points)Sep 23, 2026 5:03 PM in response to indydil
If the file ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.savedState does not exist, then consider the fact what you were told was incorrect.
Contact whoever it was again and tell them that.
User level: Level 6 (16,597 points)Sep 23, 2026 5:06 PM in response to indydil
well, that path SHOULD be where it is to be found. are you using Apple Menu > Finder > Go > Go to Folder?
what is happening when you paste "~/Library/Saved Application State/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.savedState" (without the quotation marks) into the resulting "go to folder" popup?
User level: Level 1 (4 points)Sep 23, 2026 4:42 PM in response to indydil
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.britonleap.Embrilliance.savedState
User level: Level 6 (16,597 points)Sep 23, 2026 2:48 PM in response to indydil
indydil wrote:
one of my apps is not working. i was told to delete their plst file. it does nor show up when i search for it. Does anyone know where it is now stored.
that depends. which app are we discussing?
EDIT: and which plist file were you told to delete?
Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256363668