PrefsOverload is a full-featured tool for managing the Preferences Folder, which contains your various "Preference Files". Preference Files are those files in which applications store their settings and other informations. After System 7, all these files have been enclosed in the "Preferences Folder". Preferences are important files, but sometimes they can turn out to be completely unnecessary. This can occur, for example, when their mother application doesn't exist--or no longer exists--on your computer. Over time the Preferences Folder will slowly grow and may become filled with files created by trashed demo applications, or applications used for a short time only or not used at all. The trouble is that all these unused or unusable files still continue to take up valuable disk space!
Another problem is that sometimes an application may fail to start-up because it happens to have a Preference File that has become damaged, or "corrupted". In such a case you will need to delete this file, after which the application will create a fresh Preference File and will run as it did before the problem occurred.
PrefsOverload is designed to resolve both problems. It can browse the Preferences Folder, allowing you to detect unnecessary preferences files, thanks to the information it gives you. Or it can display a list of probably unnecessary or damaged Preferences Files, allowing you to delete them or to put them into the trash. Also PrefsOverload allows you to search for specific Preference Files, by their type/creator or their creation/modification date and so on…
• SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To run correctly, PrefsOverload needs the following:
- 68k o PowerMac running System 7.6.1 or later
or
- PowerMac running MacOS X 10.0 or later
• WHAT'S NEW IN PREFSOVERLOAD 4.1.1 COMPARED TO 3.5.4
-- AppleScript Support
-- New OSX-like floating Get Info window
-- Various GUI improvements
-- View Contents window, was removed. Now you can view files contents directly using a supported application like ResEdit, BBEdit or PropertyListEditor.
-- Double-clicking an item now launches it instead of displaying its contents
-- Now windows fit in 640x480 resolution
-- Window management improved on systems with multiple screens
-- Lots of bug were fixed
• KNOWN BUGS
There is an interface bug which prevents the Preferences dialog to appear correctly on some configurations using MacOS 8.1. I'm working on it but if you encounter this bug, you can help me sending an Apple System Profiler Report of your System. My e-mail address is ziksw@kagi.com
• SHAREWARE NOTICE
PrefsOverload is Shareware! If you like it, please read the "How To Register" file and buy it for $15 only! Registering allows to delete files and deletes the shareware reminder at startup, and also you will freely upgrade to any future version of PrefsOverload.
Please support shareware!
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