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Hazel cannot find Chrome or Firefox Preference file

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:13 am
by ringgit
Looking at the console after turning on debug, I see that Hazel cannot find Chrome or Firefox preference file. Should I be concerned? Why does Hazel need to know what is my Chrome or Firefox preferences?

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2021-11-16 20:05:32.934 hazelworker[11101] DEBUG: Program is licensed.
2021-11-16 20:05:33.014 hazelworker[11101] DEBUG: Could not find entry for default_directory in Chrome preference file.
2021-11-16 20:05:33.059 hazelworker[11101] DEBUG: Error reading file /Users/david/Library/Application Support/Firefox/prefs.js: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “prefs.js” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/david/Library/Application Support/Firefox/prefs.js, NSUnderlyingError=0x600003d06d90 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

Re: Hazel cannot find Chrome or Firefox Preference file

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 10:17 am
by Mr_Noodle
Hazel checks those to find out which folder those browsers use for downloads. If it is a download folder, then that allows Hazel to treat certain things differently, like duplicate files and incomplete downloads. I would ignore the errors unless you use those browsers to download stuff.

Re: Hazel cannot find Chrome or Firefox Preference file

PostPosted: Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:33 pm
by ringgit
Thanks for the explaination. Will ignore these errors at this moment.