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Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/

Subject: Re: Saving application data in ~/Library/Application Support/
From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 13:34:20 -0800

On 05 Feb 09, at 10:21, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:

I've never seen anything that promoted the idea of storing non- standard data files in that folder. If there's a good argument for it, please enlighten me.

Many Carbon applications (especially older ones) store preferences in ~/Library/Preferences using custom file formats. This isn't by any means limited to older apps, though - for example, com.apple.dock.db was added in Leopard. :)

Short version, there's never been any requirement on what format you store your preferences in. Using plists simplifies some things, but it isn't mandatory. _______________________________________________

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