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iTerm Upgrade Loses Preferences & Bookmarks

21 August 2008 - 8:11pm — Bevan

UPDATE: iTerm version 0.9.5.0821 has been released which is intended to fix this. I haven't tested it.

I just upgraded to iTerm version 0.9.5.0820 from 0.9.5.0611 on Mac OS X Leopard, and found that iTerm had forgotten or lost all of my preferences and bookmarks.

I fixed it by;

  1. quitting iTerm
  2. going to ~/Library/Preferences/
  3. moving net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist to net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist~
  4. copying iTerm.plist to net.sourceforge.iTerm.plist
  5. starting iTerm

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Comments

22 August 2008 - 6:30am — Scott Jangro (not verified)

YAiTS

Yet Another iTerm Saved.

thanks for posting this!

22 August 2008 - 4:59am — A Stranger (not verified)

Kudos to you my friend

I was about to pull my hairs off my head when i updated and relaunched the new version. Oh boy, i had so many settings customized that i don't even remember! Thanks much.

22 August 2008 - 4:10am — Chris Barnes (not verified)

Bravo

You saved me an hour or 2. Thanks for posting this.

22 August 2008 - 3:03am — John (not verified)

perfect!

Thanks for the tip (first link I clicked when I googled the problem and BAM! Fixed.

22 August 2008 - 2:35am — Frank (not verified)

Make sure iTerm is closed first

If you do the renaming when iTerm is open and then close it, it will blast away your copied settings. ARRRRRGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

22 August 2008 - 12:36am — misschatter (not verified)

Oh thank you!! I was just

Oh thank you!! I was just freaking out because it wiped out all my ssh tunneling bookmarks which would be a pain to recreate! Hmmm that didn't fix it for me. I'll hunt around for a backup.

21 August 2008 - 9:18pm — Michael G. Noll (not verified)

Number of people helped: +1

Thanks for this info, Bevan! It certainly helped me after the recent iTerm upgrade...

Cheers,
Michael

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