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Re: What is the rationale behind keeping preferences in one place and "Application Support" files in another?
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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: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:26:06 -0700


On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:

To shift discussion from question of preferences... Is it good policy to expect/allow that content of "Application Support" folder can disappear at any time?

There's no problem with that, although if you're using the folder to create temporary files that are not expected to survive a logout or reboot, then you should probably consider using the value returned by NSTemporaryDirectory() instead.

Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>


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