Resetting Textual

The helper mentioned below is historical, and the deletion instructions can remove preferences and other application data. Use the current backup and reset guide before making changes.

Resetting Textual Using Helper Application

If you would like to start fresh with Textual, then use the former helper download (retained in the source archive, not republished here) to download an applet which can be used reset your setup.

WARNING: Unless you have a backup, there is no way to restore preference files once they are destroyed.

Resetting Textual Manually

Textual maintains data at one or more of the following paths:

~/Library/Application Support/Textual
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.codeux.irc.textual/
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.codeux.irc.textual5/
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.codeux.apps.textual/
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.codeux.apps.textual-mas/
~/Library/Group Containers/8482Q6EPL6.com.codeux.irc.textual/
~/Library/Group Containers/8482Q6EPL6.com.codeux.apps.textual/
~/Library/Group Containers/com.codeux.apps.textual/
~/Library/Containers/com.codeux.irc.textual/
~/Library/Containers/com.codeux.irc.textual5/
~/Library/Containers/com.codeux.apps.textual-mas/
~/Library/Caches/com.codeux.apps.textual/
~/Library/Preferences/com.codeux.apps.textual.plist

After deleting the items at these paths, a restart of your Mac is required, or you can kill the process named cfprefsd. The cfprefsd process is used by macOS to cache application preferences in memory.