I accidentally deleted everything in my username/library/preference folder?

[mineto]

Hi, I am a novice Mac user. I own a 2010 Mac Mini OS X 10.6.8 and I have a question. I was dumb enough to delete everything in the username/library/preference folder.

I accidentally deleted everything in the folder after reading this: http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2008/03/17/fixing-vlc-player-crashes-on-mac-os-x/

Basically, my VLC Player had some issues and kept on crashing. I updated the software and the VLC Player is working just fine now.

The only concerns that I have is... should I be worried about deleting these files in the preference folder? Other than the fact that I lost my previous preference settings, I have no problems. *edit* I guess I wasn't clear about the question I was asking... Do I damage the hard drive by deleting these files? Or deleting these files won't have any affect on my computer?

 

[Gregg2]

I think you'll be fine. If you delete one plist file (that's what is in that folder) at a time, when you run whatever app it was for, a new one gets created. I can't imagine that deleting multiple plist files, or all of them, will change that behavior. As you say, you'll lose any customized settings, which you can customize again.

 

[mineto]

Thanks

Thank you, Gregg2 for clearing that up. I was afraid I might have damaged my mac computer by deleting those files.