[SOLVED] Restoring Rectangle Pro settings from a backup

[affrae]

Hi! I accidentally borked my setup and want to restore from a backup from yesterday - what files do I need to restore?

I've found:

• ~/Library/Application Support/Rectangle Pro/
• ~/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud.com.knollsoft.hookshot/
• ~/Library/Preferences/com.knollsoft.hookshot.plist

Any others?

Thanks,

Daniel.

Edit: Yes I am a rectangle pro user - and there's a lot of Hookshot mentioning - but this is what I have found.

Edit 2: Tested Process Below

[affrae]

So far testing with those files/folders has not restored my previous setup

[rxhanson]

~/Library/Preferences/com.knollsoft.Hookshot.plist is the one.

macOS (NSUserDefaults) will cache the values from that plist, so you'll have to do something like killall cfprefsd to reload the updated plist.

If you happen to have checked the box for syncing over iCloud at some point in the General tab of the settings window, then you can check that box again to pull it from iCloud.

Hookshot was the original name of Rectangle Pro.

[affrae]

Legend!

Thank you very much I will have a play ASAP.

Aff.

EDIT: I accidentally overwrote my iCloud synced config. Hence the digging through a backup 😢

[affrae]

Hi @rxhanson!

I got this to restore - thank you so much!

There was a slight snafu in that because iCloud Sync was turned on, Rectangle Pro was identifying the iCloud version as the most up-to-date and so would overwrite my restored copy. However I have a workaround.

For those looking for a process:

Cleaning and restoring

1. Quit out of Rectangle Pro
2. Restore your preferences file from your backup - com.knollsoft.Hookshot.plist to ~/Libray/Preferences/com.knollsoft.Hookshot.plist
3. DO NOT LAUNCH RECTANGLE PRO JUST YET

Stopping iCloud sync from overwriting when you first launch

1. Open that restored preferences file in a binary plist editor (I used Xcode)
2. Look for the entry iCloud Sync
3. Set its value to the number 0
4. Save the file

Re-enabling your iCloud sync and making your local copy the authoritative version

1. In Terminal, issue the command killall cfprefsd
2. Launch Rectangle Pro
3. Change something innocuous like the menu bar icon
4. Turn on iCloud sync from Settings ➡️ General

Futureproofing

1. Use the export and import feature - it's there for a reason 😈

Profit

1. Profit

After doing these steps on my Mac Studio I launched Rectangle Pro on my MacBook pro and everything synced over.

[rxhanson]

Thanks for this! I need to revisit how things are done in Rectangle Pro so we don't have these kinds of scenarios.

[affrae]

Thank you, @rxhanson !! I love this app.

I'm just glad my muscle memory doesn't need a re-program 😈