PrefWatch v.1.3.2

1.3.2 — 2026-07-06

Feature

• Contextual NOTEs for Finder view settings (first "Use as Defaults" writes the full structure) and menu-bar extras (run killall SystemUIServer to apply).

Fix

• ByHost defaults write commands now place -currentHost before the verb — they were malformed and did nothing, affecting every ByHost pref (Control Center menu-bar modules, trackpad/mouse, screensaver, ColorSync).
• System-level pref changes (/Library/Preferences, seen when running as root) now emit commands targeting the system file by full path plus a root NOTE — a bare domain replayed into the console user's ~/Library copy instead.
• Emitted commands reproduce values faithfully: escape $/backticks/$VAR in -string values, single quotes in all PlistBuddy commands, and leading/trailing whitespace in PlistBuddy values.
• Array deletions: emitted highest-index-first so a batch runs safely in order, a nested-list element now emits its items, and the deletion WARNING is no longer dropped from ONLY_CMDS/Jamf output.
• NSTableViewDefaultSizeMode (sidebar icon size) is no longer dropped as noise.
• show_domain_diff no longer emits a spurious full-domain storm when defaults export transiently returns empty.
• launchd_state_watch no longer leaks plutil errors into the log (Sonoma).
• sharing_exec_watch drops read-only networksetup/systemsetup queries invoked without the leading dash.
• Jamf $7 (ONLY_CMDS) is no longer overridden by a stray environment variable.
• poll_watch flush watchdog: set -e no longer aborts the kill escalation on an already-reaped pid, so the straggler freeze-cap holds.
• Contextual NOTEs and the array-deletion WARNING dedup per burst — shown once for a rapid run of changes and re-shown after a quiet gap (_NOTE_BURST_GAP, default 15s), instead of once per session or on every single change.

Noise

• Excluded daemon / non-reproducible domains: MobileMeAccounts, com.apple.ShazamKit, com.apple.mobiletimerd, com.apple.parsecd.
• Filtered internal keys: VisibleNetworkSRLocaleIdentifiers (speech), version (Spotlight), hudNotifiedConstrast (universalaccess).