The System Preferences window is not the only way to adjust user settings. Macs come with a defaults command line interface that lets you read, write, and delete macOS user defaults. You may have even used it before — revealing hidden files in Finder is a popular snippet (hot tip: ⌘ + ⇧ + . is quicker). defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -string YES Let’s take it apart to get famili
