Re: Where/how to store lots of user application data
Re: Where/how to store lots of user application data
- Subject: Re: Where/how to store lots of user application data
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 11:40:48 +1000
Others said it all (Application Support, Caches, etc.). I'd just
like to add you should use the app identifier instead of app name
for folders: the identifier is unique thanks to the reverse DNS
principle, the app name may not be.
Namely, do not use "~/Library/Application Support/MyApp". Instead,
always use "~/Library/Application Support/com.gragsie.MyApp".
If there's two apps with exactly the same name, who cares about the
system confusion - how the heck is the user expected to tell them apart?
The reverse DNS notation should never be seen by the user, since it
is largely useless (in column view all you get is
"com.arbi......plist" and junk like that) and as mentioned cannot
easily be searched, etc. It annoys me immensely that many apps use
it for their preferences - it can take several minutes to find the
prefs for a given app; I usually have to resort to fs_usage'ing the
app as it starts up. :(
Wade Tregaskis (AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ:
40056898, MSN, audio/video iChat & email: email@hidden,
Jabber: email@hidden)
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