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I'm attempting to disable my spotlight hotkey so that I can make my Alfred hotkey CMD+Space. If I disable "Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut" through system preferences, it seems to stay disabled until I restart. After restart, the spotlight hotkey is enabled again. How do I permanently disable the spotlight key?

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I just tried disabling the shortcut and restarting, and it stayed disabled.

You could try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist.

Or if nothing else works, you could use KeyRemap4MacBook to map command-space to some other key combination:

<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::SPACE, VK_COMMAND | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::F19</autogen>

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  • Deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist and then setting the key again did the trick for me. Thanks!
    – bastianwegge
    Jan 5, 2016 at 20:14

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