Where is com.apple.bluetooth.plist

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Modify Bluetooth plist DeviceCache and retain changes? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 7 months ago. Active 7 years, 4 months ago.

Viewed 2k times. Does anyone know how to retain the changes to the Bluetooth Plist? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. MrRocketman MrRocketman 11 6 6 bronze badges.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I tried both to no avail. Interestingly enough, I had to re-pair my Apple keyboard and trackpad, but the device in question just connected without me having to do anything.

Then I tried removing the Bluetooth preference files from the Mac's filesystem. First, disable Bluetooth, and then execute the following commands in Terminal. These commands should delete both the global system's Bluetooth preferences and your users' bluetooth preferences.

I was pointed in the direction of the Mac developer utility Bluetooth Explorer, which can be freely downloaded off Apple's developer portal.

Strangely enough, Apple seems to have discontinued this utility for the latest versions of XCode, but it seems the version from Xcode Changing the first dropdown from Enabled to Disabled solved the issue by allowing me to prevent the device from pairing.

After disabling Simple Pairing, macOS suddenly started to prompt me for whether I wanted to connect to the device. I could then check off the Ignore this device checkbox, and click Cancel to avoid pairing with the device. A similar dialog to this would allow me to prevent the device from pairing. Restart the computer from the Apple Menu. Repair permissions on the Home folder: Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder.

Click on the lock icon and enter your Admin password when prompted. Setup a new Admin user account. Upon completion log out of your current account then log into the new account. If your problems cease, then consider switching to the new account and transferring your files to it - Transferring files from one User Account to another.

Immediately after the chime hold down the Command and R keys until the Apple logo appears. When Disk Utility loads select the drive out-dented entry from the Device list. Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's toolbar. A panel will drop down. Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. User profile for user: andrewcardwelluk andrewcardwelluk.

User profile for user: Eric Root Eric Root. User profile for user: leroydouglas leroydouglas. Jun 21, AM in response to Eric Root In response to Eric Root it doesn't appear in the system preferences and in the system report it says no information found. Ask a question Reset.