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: Scott Ellsworth <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:44:38 -0800
On Dec 8, 2005, at 10:49 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?
Expect Application Support to vanish at any time. If the user uses
portable home directories, the Library folder is not copied, which is
where Application Support lives.
This is a problem if you use Delicious Library, as the entire db is
stored in application support.
(NB - just one user, but one user who might pick up any one of the
three laptops in the house and expect it to work.)
I do wish that Apple would split out the 'app scratch space' and 'app
user files' spaces. Perhaps making the Core Data non document app
sample code write to some place in Documents, rather than Application
Support?
Scott
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