Making Mac accept a copied plist

I copied a .plist file from one Mac to another, but upon launching the app on the new machine, it just reset the plist file with the default. Turns out the cfprefsd preferences caching daemon was the culprit. Run the following to force it to re-read the plist after you replace it.

  
    defaults read [plist file]
  
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