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Re: Question on modifying of login item
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Re: Question on modifying of login item


  • Subject: Re: Question on modifying of login item
  • From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 00:56:03 -0800

On 05 Feb 06, at 18:46, David Chan wrote:
This application of
mine involves periodical check for updates which is why it should always be
running even if it is not manually launched.

As a general rule, polite OS X applications don't check for updates except when
they're being used. If the user isn't running the program, there's no point in
checking for updates every day, or however often.


(Not to mention that it's much easier to do update checks at application startup
only.)

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