Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/

Subject: Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/
From: Gregory Weston <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:28:32 -0500
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Shawn Erickson wrote:

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Josh de Lioncourt
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Hi,
I have some products under development written in C++. I am not using Cocoa for the most part, as these are cross-platform projects.
Review...
http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/LowLevelFileMgmt/Tasks/LocatingDirectories.html


Also of value are

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html >

and (linked from that page)

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPFileSystem/Articles/LibraryDirectory.html >

I note the OP was considering, for example, putting preferences in the Application Support directory. But there's already a place for those, and users know where to look for them. Putting your prefs elsewhere will just make users angry. _______________________________________________

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