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Re: Global (all-user) preferences for an application


  • Subject: Re: Global (all-user) preferences for an application
  • From: "Glenn L. Austin" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:03:43 -0700

On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Sean McBride <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:14:55 +0100, Jean Suisse said:
>
>> According to you, what would be the best course of action ? Should I
>> write into my application's bundle ?
>
> Never write into your application bundle.  It will fail in many cases, most notably: read-only file systems and App Sandbox.


Normally for shared preference or data you would write to a shared file in /Library/Application Support/companyname/filename, but you have to take special care if you're sandboxing your app.

--
Glenn L. Austin, Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver         <><
<http://www.austin-soft.com>


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