Had to reset my Vantage Pro 2 and now Weathercat won't run

[xairbusdriver]

My 2 cents (keep the change!). 

Perhaps mention should refer to multiple "types" of backups. While TM is great and has been used dozens of times by me, it is not really more useful for individual, incremental restoration of particular files or even folders. Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper are better at more complete System restoration even though. It can also replace individual items. Of course those two apps can make bootable backups, which TM cannot.

Rather than try to decide which .plist to backup, I use the 'backup-very thing-now-and-worry-about-the-details-later' approach. Drives are cheap, .plist files are usually small, any of them can eventually be corrupted, you may never know until it's too late.

[elagache]

Dear X-Air and WeatherCat "peeking under da' hood" of software types,

Okay, let me try to point out what may or may not be worth adding to Blick's Wiki entry.

In the ~/Library/Preferences folder you will find these WeatherCat preference files

• com.trixology.Sylvester.plist
• com.trixology.weathercat.plist
• com.trixology.WeatherCatClient.plist

The middle file is the one that can potentially cause the most damage, but losing your Sylvester or WeatherCatClient preferences could be annoying.

In the ~/Library/Application Support/WeatherCatTemp are two preference files:

• WeatherCatDaily.plist
• WeatherCatLastWundergroundUpload.plist

However, these are changing all the time.  Trying to back these up explicitly would be difficult.

Finally in the ~/Library/WeatherCatData folder there are (lucky) 13 preference files:

• CustomWebUploads.plist
• DayTypeList.plist
• RainEditList.plist
• SnowEditList.plist
• SylvesterTweets.plist
• SyntheticChannels.plist
• VantageChannelNames.plist
• WeatherCat2 rules.plist
• WeatherCatCurrentConditionsRules.plist
• WeatherCatCustomGauges.plist
• WeatherCatCustomGraphs.plist
• WeatherCatToolsPersistenceData.plist
• WeatherFacts.plist

So as you can see there are a whole bunch of .plist files that WeatherCat uses.  Now I'm not aware of anybody have a corrupted file besides the com.trixology.weathercat.plist main preference file.  Perhaps this is the only file that is really at risk, so that Blick's Wiki entry should stand as is.

Further complicating matters is how OS X caches preference files.  Does OS X force Stu to use their caching scheme for any of these files or is only the files in the preference folder (like com.trixology.weathercat.plist) actually cached by the operating system?

We might just have to find a time when Stu isn't too busy and ask him.

In those immortal words of Sylvester the cat:

S-S-S-S-S-Simple, . . . . . .isn't it? . . .   

Cheers, Edouard

[Blicj11]

Thanks Edouard. I already listed the two symptoms that I know of that indicate a corrupt weathercat.plist file. What are some that I didn't list?

I agree that really, the only one that has ever given anyone trouble is this one.

Good points, X-air, but beyond the scope of a wiki post about backing up one file. Excellent points for another wiki article though (one written up by another pilot, in Texas? - How about it DFW?)