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 11:47:41 -0800
On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:
Thanks for your response. Before you mentioned plugins, I thought
for myself that "good application" should survive loss of
"Application Support" folder and just act as if it was just freshly
installed. Now if we introduce plugins into the picture, then we
might end up with situation when "preferences" depend on such
plugins and then loss of "Application Support" folder could be
quite damaging. But then I guess "good application" should be ready
to deal with "corrupted" preferences.
They are not corrupted - they just refer to a plugin that is not there.
A good app would propagate the prefs, I think, as an obvious
troubleshooting tip for a user would be to take all the plugins out
of the folder. As a user, I would be rather hacked if removing my
plugins caused the app to forget my prefs.
(I would understand, of course, and I would not be doing that if
everything worked. Still, I would be hacked if my plugin prefs
vanished when I launched the app without them once.)
Scott
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