It says something that we have to be reminded of those old school debugging techniques that used to be part of our every day repertoire. MacOS has become VERY stable.
I've lamented the memory loss in more than one post. macOS has, indeed, become very stable.
On the other hand, doesn't it seem bizarre that built-in key functionality is susceptible to a corrupted plist?
While the non-character keys do have a particular function
by convention they are still interpreted in the same software table and they can be reassigned to do something entirely different.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought the default behavior of the F keys was in firmware or some-such.
OUT OF CURIOSITY You said you did not have com.apple.keyboard.plist or com.apple.keyboardservicesd.plist, do you remember what plists you ended up deleting?
I deleted every iTunes and Music plist (6 of 'em); the ones that grew back are:
- ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist
- ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.itunesstored.plist
- ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Music.eq.plist
- ~Library/Preferences/com.apple.Music.plist
One of the two that didn't regenerate was ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist, and I'm pretty sure the other was ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.ituneshelper.plist.
More: I trashed them while booted into a clone to ensure that they were really gone.
