Explore backing up/restoring macOS application config (tape, lra, etc)

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Just stumbled across the following project which sounds kind of like what I was thinking of trying to build!

• https://github.com/vitorgalvao/tape
  • https://github.com/vitorgalvao/tape/tree/main/Definitions
  • How does it compare to mackup? vitorgalvao/tape#3
• https://github.com/lra/mackup

  • Keep your application settings in sync (OS X/Linux)

  • brew install mackup
  • https://github.com/lra/mackup/tree/master/mackup/applications
  • Support Mac App Store apps lra/mackup#154
• https://github.com/clintmod/macprefs

  • Backup and Restore your Mac System and App Preferences (e.g. defaults write)

  • https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
  • brew install clintmod/formulas/macprefs
• https://github.com/alichtman/shallow-backup

  • shallow-backup lets you easily create lightweight backups of installed packages, applications, fonts and dotfiles, and automatically push them to a remote Git repository.

See Also

Other potentially related issues include:

• [sublime] Track Sublime Text preferences #2
• Track BetterTouchTool settings #4
• [macOS::defaults] Customize touchpad click/scroll types with set-defaults #6
• [iterm2] Configure defaults as part of install script #9
• [sourcetree] Configure defaults #10
• [macOS] Always show hidden/dotfiles in save dialogs #11
• [bin] Get bundle identifier for app (eg. to use with defaults read or similar) #13
• [fantastical] Automatically export/configure defaults/settings #14
• [macOS::defaults::Dock] Automatically configure defaults for the dock #15
• [macOS::defaults::Finder] Automatically configure defaults for Finder #16
• [macOS::defaults::Notification Centre] Automatically configure defaults for Notification Centre #17

As well as:

• [macOS] Dump/restore custom file type associations (eg. duti, SwiftDefaultApps, swda, etc) #5

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See Also:

• https://github.com/scriptingosx/swift-prefs

  • swift-prefs

  • A selection of command line tools for working with setting/defaults/preferences on macOS.