The process is 100% secure since conversion is done locally on your Mac. You can double-click to open any document, then tap “Print”, select “PDF Printer” in the printers list, print to PDF in real-time, and it will be opened automatically. PDF Printer runs as an virtual PDF printer, so you can add it to your Mac in the System Preferences, then print any documents directly to PDF. though I consider it quite rude for an application to write to another application's plist file that way, I don't see a realistic way that this specific instance harms your system.PDF Printer lets you transform any file into a PDF document whenever you need it. One of the files in that list is highly unusual for an application to read, and it's reading it in this case because it's written something there already.Īnd just to be doubly clear about this particular case. Select "Reads/Writes" and, if necessary add a filter string at the bottom to narrow down the files you see. Launch instruments and select the File Activity template.Ĭhoose the executable you want to monitor and accept the default settings.Ĭlick the red "Record" button to launch the application and monitor its activity. I'll show you how to see just what an app is doing to your files, because this is an important skill IMO. I certainly won't be installing it again. I highly doubt that anybody here has the intention to use such information to extend their trial periods indefinitely. I don't think it's unethical to just show what the heck the app is doing. So it's storing that info somewhere else.and what's even odder is that I used an app uninstaller to delete it, so whatever file it left behind wasn't detected by them.
Incidentally, deleting AppDelete's plist file doesn't reset the trial. In principle you might sleuth this out using lsof to see which files are touched while AppDelete starts up. In other words, a file which looks "official" and won't interfere with system functionality, but only AppDelete knows the name and location. It might be stored in something tricky like ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Metadata/C433D242-DB05-4894-A387-EC5B1B62A540/ABPerson In which case you may never find the file where this data is stored. That being said, the forever war of scummy users vs scummy developers results in this data being written into odd places with unpredictable names.
Well behaved apps which trust their potential customers will store this information in a plist in ~/Library/Preferences.ĪppDelete, for example, might store this info in the file:
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