OS X Stickies

[blb]

Looks like the configuration of the program is in the plist, but the actual stuff you put into stickies is at

~/Library/.StickiesDatabase

[ericmurphy]

Looks like you're right. At least, I have a file by that name in my ~/Library folder.

I found out by ftp-ing in from work and selecting "show files starting with a '.' on server" in my Windows FTP client. If I wanted to get a listing from the terminal under OS X (I don't think there's any way to show "dot files" from the Finder), I would type:

ls -la Library/

The -l option give you a verbose columnar listing, with modification dates, sizes, permissions, etc., and the -a option shows hidden files.

[ScottW]

This thread was a life saver.

I think that Apple should stay away from using "hidden" files especially in this case. This is really annoying. I am a Linux guy and used to .* files but sometimes I forget when it comes to using my Mac.

Admin

[karmabolt]

Thanks for the research guys,

I've recently found corrupted node structures on my new powerbook G4. So its a complete re-installation. Good in one way is that I can now partition the system and optimise it.

I have been working with clients the past two weeks and have stickies galore that I need to restore. I have of course created a PDF of them all through Preview, but you've sourced the databse file .

As I am backing up the entire Users Directory, and will be partitioning the Disk in this next installation. I'm safe in knowing that the Stickies will be present upon restoring my users folder into the new OSx partition.

Saved me a lot of worry, cheers !

[Dead Reiver]

I know this is abit off the current question, but it fits the subject.

Is it possable if I'm sitting at my computer and want to place a sticky note on another system?

D. R.

[troy_goodson]

I think this is possible with AppleScript. The only problem is that Stickies isn't scriptable, yet (maybe in Jaguar?). You could, however, make stuff show up using TextEdit.

it works something like this:

tell "Application" of machine "machine IP address in the form "eppc://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx""
-- script goes here
end tell

To set up a machine for remote AppleScript:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go To Sharing
3. Check "Allow Remote Apple Events" in the Applications tab.

that's from <http://osx.blogspot.com/2002_05_05_osx_archive.html>

see also <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75231> "Mac OS X AppleScript: Scripting Remote Applications"

search Google for
"remote apple events" applescript "os x"

[lethe]

or maybe you should ssh to the machine, and pico ~/Library/.StickiesDatabase