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Subject: Re: "First Run" installation of Application support stuff?
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Subject: Re: "First Run" installation of Application support stuff?


  • Subject: Subject: Re: "First Run" installation of Application support stuff?
  • From: Udo Ludtke <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:33:22 -0500

On 2002/12/16 19:31, "email@hidden"
<email@hidden> wrote:

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>> prefs are best put in the the app folder.
>
> Apple's guidelines are there for a reason.

> If your users have to manually edit your preference files, you've got
> bigger problems. Your users should never have to deal with preference
> files directly.

Its not a big deal to update a pref file residing in the app folder from
within your app. If a user moves the pref file out of the app folder, a new
one will be created and the old prefs are lost, but that is no different for
prefs in the pref folder.

Snip

> 4) Make it impossible to run from a read-only file system

Agree, with this one.
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