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Reset Finder and TotalFinder into factory defaults

To reset TotalFinder and Finder into factory defaults.

  1. in Terminal.app run
curl -sS https://gist.githubusercontent.com/darwin/804d06733194f201a595c0dbbf8130ea/raw/reset.sh | bash
  1. and then launch /Applications/TotalFinder.app again

Alternatively in step 1 you might want to copy&paste the commands below by hand (skip empty lines and comments)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e -o pipefail -x
# politely ask Finder to quit
osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit"
# check if previsous backup folder already exists
if [[ -d ~/totalfinder-settings-backup ]]; then
rm -rf /tmp/totalfinder-settings-previous-backup
mv ~/totalfinder-settings-backup /tmp/totalfinder-settings-previous-backup
fi
# backup settings as plists
mkdir ~/totalfinder-settings-backup
set +e
defaults export com.binaryage.totalfinder ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.binaryage.totalfinder.plist
defaults export com.binaryage.totalfinder.agent ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.binaryage.totalfinder.agent.plist
defaults export com.binaryage.totalfinder.crashwatcher ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.binaryage.totalfinder.crashwatcher.plist
defaults export com.apple.finder ~/totalfinder-settings-backup/com.apple.finder.plist
# delete settings
defaults delete com.binaryage.totalfinder
defaults delete com.binaryage.totalfinder.agent
defaults delete com.binaryage.totalfinder.crashwatcher
defaults delete com.apple.finder
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