Reset Snow Leopard user accounts/preference
My kids completely changed everything in their user account, what is the easiest way to reset everything to default (without reinstalling everything) including:
- Name of hard drive
- Menu items in Finder
- Dock size and items
- Size/appearance of things
- Even some applications have been moved from their original location
Name of hard drive
Click enter, rename itMenu items in Finder
What do you mean by that?Dock size and items
Trashing~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
will do the trickSize/appearance of things
Trashing the.plist
file under~/Library/Preferences
Even some applications have been moved from their original location
You'll have to move them back to/Applications
manually.
In order for that not to be reproduced, you could try Parental Controls
under System Preferences
> Account
and limit what they can do on their account.
In addition to Loïc’s excellent answer
Menu items in Finder
What do you mean by that?
I believe he means the Finder’s Sidebar and such. In order to reset those, thrash the following file and logoff (or restart):
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Even some applications have been moved from their original location
You'll have to move them back to /Applications manually.
Yes, unless he has a Time Machine backup… which I believe he doesn’t. :)