Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
- Subject: Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
- From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 19:08:49 +0000
Andrei,
To answer the question in the subject line -- The preferences folder
is for property lists (whose contents have a constrained format) of
the form com.company.ApplicationName.plist. The application support
folder is for other things -- e.g., if your application allows for
plugins, they might be located there.
To answer your other unanswered question:
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:37:43 -0500, Andrei Tchijov
<email@hidden> wrote:
Is "Application Support" for things which could be deleted without
any ill side effects?
Depends what you mean by "ill". If you delete your app's Preferences,
you'll lost your preferences. If you delete your app's plugins,
you'll lose your plugins. Your app should behave gracefully if one
but not the other is deleted -- if both are deleted, your app should
probably behave as though it has been run for the first time.
Best wishes,
Hamish
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