Preference Files in Shell

[gmark99]

I would like to find the bash/zsh filesystem location in Catalina of user preferences. Especially for VoiceOver.

I cannot turn this annoying thing off, and I've followed all the procedures, had Apple Support working on it for an hour and giving up. Then I ran malware and cleanup and disk repair. Then I reinstalled 10.15.2. This leads me to believe that either there is a bug or corruption in data. I would rather not restore an earlier version from time machine of the entire system, either.

The bottom line is that I would rather just learn more about where and how the preference data is currently stored in Catalina. I've looked under /Library, but haven't found anything named related to VoiceOver or Accessibility. I would like to know how to find these files for software preferences. I've changed various settings in some utilities, but see no change in the file timestamps, so perhaps an interface is buggy.

How do I find preference files and data?

 

[Weaselboy]

I see a couple plist pref files in this users folder that might be what you are after. I don't see much in the way of setting in the files though.

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.VoiceOver3

 

[gmark99]

Thanks, folks! Being confirmed that the preferences files are user-specific, I've gotten into the shell and moved the default data from my backup "test" login to my admin login, and then simply removed the preferences for VoiceOver from the main login. Problem solved. Apparently ( )