[JW Lua] Accessing Finale's folder settings on MacOS

[Jan Angermüller]

Hi,

does anyone know how Finale stores its preferences data on MacOS in the 
com.makemusic.finale26.fprf file?
I need to access Finale's folder settings from the preferences dialog 
for my Perfect Layout installer.
On Windows it's easily readable in the Finale.ini file, but on MacOS 
each folder name seems to look like this:
(in ~/Library/Preferences/com.makemusic.finale26.fprf )

<key>275</key>
         <dict>
<key>urlBookmarkDataForActiveCustomization</key>
             <data>
             Ym9va4ADAAAAAAQQMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
             AAAAAAAAAAAAfAIAAAUAAAABAQAAVXNlcnMAAAAPAAAAAQEAAGph
             bmFuZ2VybXVlbGxlcgAJAAAAAQEAAERvY3VtZW50cwAAAA4AAAAB
             AQAARmluYWxlLURhdGVpZW4AABAAAAABBgAABAAAABQAAAAsAAAA
             QAAAAAgAAAAEAwAAdNUJAAAAAAAIAAAABAMAAE+JCgAAAAAACAAA
             AAQDAABciQoAAAAAAAgAAAAEAwAAOMo1AAAAAAAQAAAAAQYAAHAA
             AACAAAAAkAAAAKAAAAAIAAAAAAQAAEHBVC/bqnmdGAAAAAECAAAC
             AAAAAAAAAA8AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAAABAMAAAIAAAAAAAAA
             BAAAAAMDAAD1AQAACAAAAAEJAABmaWxlOi8vLwwAAAABAQAATWFj
             aW50b3NoIEhECAAAAAQDAAAAkJpEHgAAAAgAAAAABAAAQcDxGqLE
             sqokAAAAAQEAAEE2MDM1MEZELTQzRUMtNEUxOS04OTMxLUYwMzM0
             REU2Rjk1NxgAAAABAgAAgQAAAAEAAADvEwAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
             AQAAAAEBAAAvAAAAAAAAAAEFAAC6AAAAAQIAADJiMzVjYjM2NjAw
             ZDc2OTNlMTg2MjJhMTM5NDcwMDQ1YTdlOTM4YWI7MDAwMDAwMDA7
             MDAwMDAwMDA7MDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAyMDtjb20uYXBwbGUuYXBw
             LXNhbmRib3gucmVhZC13cml0ZTswMTswMTAwMDAxMzswMDAwMDAw
             MDAwMzVjYTM4Oy91c2Vycy9qYW5hbmdlcm11ZWxsZXIvZG9jdW1l
             bnRzL2ZpbmFsZS1kYXRlaWVuAAAAzAAAAP7///8BAAAAAAAAABAA
             AAAEEAAAWAAAAAAAAAAFEAAAsAAAAAAAAAAQEAAA2AAAAAAAAABA
             EAAAyAAAAAAAAAACIAAApAEAAAAAAAAFIAAAFAEAAAAAAAAQIAAA
             JAEAAAAAAAARIAAAWAEAAAAAAAASIAAAOAEAAAAAAAATIAAASAEA
             AAAAAAAgIAAAhAEAAAAAAAAwIAAAsAEAAAAAAAABwAAA+AAAAAAA
             AAARwAAAFAAAAAAAAAASwAAACAEAAAAAAACA8AAAuAEAAAAAAAA=
             </data>
<key>whichUserCustomizableFoldersAreActuallyBeingUsed</key>
             <string>1</string>
         </dict>

Is this some "standard XML encoding" that I am missing?

Best,
Jan
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