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Error detail-

Error Info:
error code = 23
cmd ['rsync', '-a', '/Library/LaunchDaemons/', '/Users/sanimkhan/Dropbox/MacPrefsBackup/StartupItems/LaunchDaemons/AllUsers/']
error message:rsync: send_files failed to open "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.microsoft.teams.TeamsUpdaterDaemon.plist": Permission denied (13)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /AppleInternal/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/rsync/rsync-54.120.1/rsync/main.c(996) [sender=2.6.9]

Traceback-

  File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 73, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 69, in main
    invoke_func(args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 39, in invoke_func
    args.func()
  File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 17, in backup
    startup_items.backup()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.26/bin/startup_items.py", line 10, in backup
    backup_system_daemons_agents()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.26/bin/startup_items.py", line 35, in backup_system_daemons_agents
    copy_dir(source, dest)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.26/bin/utils.py", line 31, in copy_dir
    execute_shell(command)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.26/bin/utils.py", line 12, in execute_shell
    cwd=cwd, stderr=STDOUT).strip().decode("utf-8")
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 223, in check_output
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['rsync', '-a', '/Library/LaunchDaemons/', '/Users/sanimkhan/Dropbox/MacPrefsBackup/StartupItems/LaunchDaemons/AllUsers/']' returned non-zero exit status 23

System detail-
macOS Catalina
version 10.15.7

Hi Clint (and others),

Upon running backup it returned error code 23. Files were created though. So I just tried the restore. The same holds for the restore. Output logs are attached. I run the v1.0.26 script in Mojave.
Can someone help?
macprefs-backup.log
macprefs-restore.log

Thanks in advance!

Agape

brew is installing version 1.0.26 which correspond to the latest tag but do not correspond to the latest master.
1.0.26 is not compatible with Python3, the latest master is.

it would require a version tagging for the current master and updating brew.

thanks

Hello,

I've just installed macprefs but I'm unable to create a backup because the folder

/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist

doesn't exist on my machine.

I just (re)installed from an existing TimeMachine backup a few days ago and I'm running macOS Sierra (10.12.6).

Attached I'm sending you the output when running "macprefs backup".

log.txt

Macprefs creates quite a few symlinks in /usr/local/bin - and maybe in other places? brew uninstall macprefs doesn't remove these symlinks. Is there a clean way of ensuring a complete uninstall of macprefs?

The requirements say Python 3.6.0 is required
but in reality, it looks like the code has been written with Python2 standards
in fact if I run the application with Python 3.x it fails as follow:

python /usr/local/bin/macprefs restore
  File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 23
    print 'Backup Complete.'
                           ^
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

if I run it in Python 2 it works fine

are you planning to adapt the code?

stephane@mac:~$ sudo macprefs restore

Restoring system preferences...
Restoring: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
Error Info:
error code = 1
cmd ['defaults', 'import', '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement', '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist']
error message: 2017-11-22 06:06:56.029 defaults[57120:244331] Could not read data from /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 55, in
main()
File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 51, in main
invoke_func(args)
File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 32, in invoke_func
args.func()
File "/usr/local/bin/macprefs", line 23, in restore
system_preferences.restore()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.15/bin/system_preferences.py", line 46, in restore
power_management_restore_path])
File "/usr/local/Cellar/macprefs/1.0.15/bin/utils.py", line 14, in execute_shell
cwd=cwd, stderr=STDOUT).strip()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.14/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 219, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['defaults', 'import', '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement', '/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist']' returned non-zero exit status 1

Hello,

I installed the package via homebrew. I am running python 3.11. I preformed the command "macprefs backup" and was presented with the following message...

Doing some digging online I found this source, which describes that in python 3 parentheses are to be added to the print call out.

I went into the script and added parentheses to these call-out's.

• Backup Complete
• Restore Complete

After making those changes, I got the following result after trying the command "macprefs backup".

~ ❯❯❯ macprefs backup
env: python: No such file or directory

macOS: 13.1 (22C65)
Processor: Intel Core i9
install command: brew install clintmod/formulas/macprefs

I was migrating from a somewhat more relaxed laptop setup to a new one that has a few security tools on it and I had problems when macprefs was trying to chown on /Library/LaunchAgents

https://github.com/clintmod/macprefs/blob/master/startup_items.py#L45-L56

I'm able to chown the directory by hand when I omit -R and on most .plist items but anything owned by the security tools in question prevented me from doing a chown, even if it was to the same user/group it already had (root:wheel) that macprefs is trying to apply.

Makes me wonder if it is best to only chown the files that macprefs copied over? Or fail but warn, not totally bail out of macprefs, this would, however, need a file list to chown on instead of a full dir.

Hi!
would you please make a new release for version 1.0.26 which fixes the issues with python3?
that would probably allow the maintainer of the homebrew package to install the latest version?

when running macprefs like the documentation

$ macprefs --version
v1.0.26

$ macprefs backup -t system_preferences
usage: macprefs [-h] [--version] [--verbose]  ...
macprefs: error: unrecognized arguments: -t system_preferences

I don't have Dropbox and never did.
My backup directory is configured at startup:
export MACPREFS_BACKUP_DIR=/Users/username/.macprefs
However, some directories are being created in ~/Dropbox (the directory Dropbox is being created):

app_store_preferences
dotfiles
preferences
shared_file_lists
ssh
StartupItems
system_preferences

I manually moved them into the directory I configured, but now I'm concerned, if the restore function also has hardcoded paths.

I'd like to backup the ~/Library/Containers for app store application preferences but it also contains a bunch of other files and symlinks to directories. Symlinks don't play well with dropbox as it likes to follow them and back up a bunch of unintended stuff. This was requested by @michael-bakker