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Updated Mar 01, 2008 by jnj
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Secrets lets you customize many Mac OS settings that are hidden or incomplete.

Many of these values can harm your system if used improperly. Use it at your own risk.

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Using Secrets


Comment by mcintosh80305, Mar 03, 2008

Could you add a sentence or two explaining what these are about? Some are very clear; others aren't.

Comment by mr.m.kaufman, Mar 04, 2008

How do I UNINSTALL this? You say how to install, but how do I entirely remove it from my system at some later date? I like to know that about something before I just go ahead and install it.

Comment by jacobwil, Mar 05, 2008

To uninstall Secrets.prefPane, simply right click (control-click) on the icon in the view all part of system preferences. Then click remove in the list (should be the only thing in the list).

Comment by johnlatvia, Mar 06, 2008

I install it, but immediately get the following error - my only way out then is to force quit system preferences:

Data was corrupted: XML parser error:

Encountered unknown tag html on line 4
Old-style plist parser error:
Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex

Comment by designbymk, Mar 06, 2008

I'm having the same issue as @johnlatvia.

Comment by vincent.vanwylick, Mar 06, 2008

Same, as the above two. On a powerpc / G4 / Leopard latest version.

Comment by peachey.home, Mar 06, 2008

Same as above. Imac Core Duo running 10.5.2

Comment by tinoglimmann, Mar 06, 2008

Same for me. Macbook Pro, 2GHz, 10.5.2... Looking forward to a solution.

Comment by mhale62, Mar 06, 2008

Works fine for me until I attempt to RELOAD then same error as those above. Al iMac 2.4 Ghz/4 GB RAM/10.5.2

Comment by deandmx, Mar 07, 2008

There needs to be an explanation of what the different colours mean, as well as why some items are bold and other aren't.

An RSS feed of updates would be nice too.

Comment by milan.luca, Mar 14, 2008

for unistall remove the file in ~/Library/PreferencePanes?/Secret.prefPane

Comment by mattsubs, Mar 18, 2008

Safari 3.1 breaks Secrets, update please! :-D Thx!

Comment by Chris.Almond, Mar 26, 2008

Same problem as everyone above. On a MacBook? Pro 2.6Ghz/4GB RAM/10.5.2

Comment by romain.pontida, Apr 01, 2008

I think a great feature would be to have new secrets highlited. Because when I click on "update secrets", I have no way to know if there have been some new secrets unless I scroll down the whole list.

But except that, it's a great prefpane, thanks a lot for the good work.

Comment by metaber, Apr 11, 2008

I second romain.pontida's idea -- I had assumed that there's some way to view new additions after updating, but that I just couldn't find it. So if this isn't in there already it definitely would be useful to have.

Comment by carlo.righini, Apr 16, 2008

Ive installed it but I cant update it to get any secrets, it gives me the following error.

Update Error Could not download latest data: Operation could not be completed. (HTTP Status error 500.)

Macbook Core2 Duo

Comment by arnoldridley, Apr 17, 2008

same as carlo

Comment by adbust, Apr 21, 2008

secrets.textdriven.com is down

Comment by timpritlove, Apr 25, 2008

secrets.textdriven.com is still down

Comment by odes.tgd, Apr 26, 2008

its down man

Comment by robert.basil, Apr 28, 2008

The secrets server has been down for over a month. Pretty obvious that the author has abandoned it. Damn shame too as it was a great app. The least the author could do is stop by here and let us know what is going on.

Comment by abasscube, May 02, 2008

secrets.textdriven.com is back up now, as of May 2, so the preference pane works again. :-)

Comment by ali.karbassi, May 03, 2008

Down again (May 3, 2008 10:23:24). It gives me a "500 - Internal Server Error"

Comment by GRMrGecko, May 04 (5 days ago)

I believe it is an .htaccess file error and that if they would delete it or figure out what the problem is with it the site can be up again.

Comment by ahpanchal, May 05 (4 days ago)

its up as of right now. i JUST updated secrets and have been trying for weeks to update and it FINALLY went just now!


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