How to read and save prefs to text or plist?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

How to read and save prefs to text or plist?

#2

You don’t say what you want to save, but here’s a script I wrote that saves how many times a script/app has been run:

try
	set runs to (do shell script "defaults read ScriptRunCount theCount")
	-- ScriptRunCount is the name of the variable
	-- theCount is the value as text
	set runs to 1 + runs
	do shell script ("defaults write ScriptRunCount theCount " & runs as text)
on error --> no such file yet
	set runs to 1
	do shell script ("defaults write ScriptRunCount theCount " & runs as text)
end try

display dialog "This script has run " & (do shell script "defaults read ScriptRunCount theCount") & " times."