Where are color presets stored?

[Kelly Robinson]

I recently imported far too many color presets into iTerm (by accident) and it's painful to delete them one at a time through the UI. Is there a file somewhere that I can edit by hand to remove them en masse?

[George Nachman]

Hi Kelly,

You can convert your plist file to xml and hand edit it. Kind of painful.

cd /tmp

cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist .

plutil -convert xml1 com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

vi com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

# quit iterm2

cp com.googlecode.iterm2.plist ~/Library/Preferences

# restart iterm2

[zwilson.d...@gmail.com]

The least painful method I've found is to use the Xcode Editor (free download from the Mac App Store) to reset iTerm 2's color-schemes to factory defaults as follows:

1. Quit iTerm

2. Open ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist with Xcode Editor (if it's not your default .plist editor, right click on the file in finder and choose "open with">"Xcode"

3. Delete the "Custom Color Presets" key 

4. Re-import the color-schemes you want.

I do this whenever I do a `git pull` from the iTerm2 color-schemes repo. Not *too* painful.