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reynoldsnlp
commented on September 18, 2024
If you save the blocklist in the app is the resulting file identical to the plist file?
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Spelkington
commented on September 18, 2024
A bit of research on this: it appears that the file stored at ~/Library/Preferences/org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist and the .selfcontrol file exported by the program are not the same, which would explain why SelfControl's CLI doesn't read the former as a valid blocklist:
Copy of the blocklist from ~/Library/Preferences/org.eyebeam.SelfControl.plist:
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Exported file containing the same blocklist:
bplist00�����_��BlockAsWhitelist]HostBlacklist���8����
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It appears they contain very similar information, but are definitely not the same.
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Spelkington
commented on September 18, 2024
After doing a search for files with the same MD5 hash as the exported blocklist, it appears none exist in either ~/Applications or ~/Library/Preferences, which leads me to believe that the blocklist recognized by the SelfControl frontend application and the CLI are using two different formats for blocklists. Pure speculation, but I'd imagine the copy in ~/Library/Preferences is the format recognized by the GUI, and the exported copy is the format recognized by the CLI.
Being able to access the blocklist defined by the user in the GUI would be enormously helpful - I am currently building out a SelfControl Raycast extension for my own (and others) use, and being able to use the GUI-defined blocklist rather than having to re-export changes to a specific file location in the user's home directory would be awesome.
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