Reset TotalFinder plists

readme.md

This is a simple shell script which will hopefully reset TotalFinder and Finder into factory defaults.

Warning: this will wipe out your licensing info.

1. open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
2. execute:

curl -sL https://gist.github.com/darwin/78432cb9b0f158bc00932bcdaed0b9a8/raw/totalfinder-reset.sh | bash

3. if successful you may want to delete backup folder created in ~/.totalfinder-plist-backups via

rm -rf ~/.totalfinder-plist-backups

4. if something failed, copy&paste the output and send it back to me (support@binaryage.com)

totalfinder-reset.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o pipefail

PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER=~/.totalfinder-plist-backups

if [ -d "$PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER" ]; then
  echo "The backup folder $PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER already exists from previous run."
  echo "Please delete the folder with 'rm -rf $PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER' before launching this script again."
  echo "Doing nothing."
  exit 1
fi

# quit Finder and TotalFinderCrashWatcher
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit"
killall -SIGINT TotalFinderCrashWatcher

# move plists to backup
mkdir -p $PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER
if ls ~/Library/Preferences/com.binaryage.totalfinder* 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
  mv -v ~/Library/Preferences/com.binaryage.totalfinder* $PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER
fi
if ls ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder* 1> /dev/null 2>&1; then
  mv -v ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder* $PLIST_BACKUP_FOLDER
fi

# launch TotalFinder again
open /Applications/TotalFinder.app