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Volomike
Volomike

Reputation: 24886

Where does Qt/C++ Store System Scope QSettings on Mac OSX 10?

According to Qt's docs for the latest Qt version, looking at QSettings, they say that system scope of settings on a Mac are stored in a directory /etc/xdg. Unfortunately, I'm not finding this to be the case on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite. Where do they store these settings? I mean, I've gotten QSettings to work in this example, but no /etc/xdg folder is to be found even when I do sudo su and assume root on my Mac in order to access that folder.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4295

Answers (1)

gengisdave
gengisdave

Reputation: 2050

On a MacOS, $HOME/Library/Preferences/ should be the location for user settings, while /Library/Preferences/ is the path for default settings (and a user can't write on it).

If on newer version of MacOS Qt uses the Unix' paths, then you should look at /etc/xdg/ or $HOME/.config/

In all the four cases, those directory contains a single .rc file and (optionally) a subir named as the software which contains all other config files.

Upvotes: 4

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