Re: Preferences caching?
Re: Preferences caching?
- Subject: Re: Preferences caching?
- From: Alex Kac <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:38:59 -0700
While I agree that sometimes deleting a prefs file is useful, its not really a good idea - never was. Its still asking the user to muck around app internals. The fact that mavericks now caches really shouldn’t matter.
I think if deleting your prefs file is a common case, or even somewhat common, or used at all - then yes, its far more appropriate for you to have a button. Asking the user to trawl through internal implementation details of the system was never a good idea.
So in this case, I think Apple is doing the right thing.
On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On 27 Nov 2013, at 8:18 pm, David Duncan <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> The preferences file has always been considered an implementation detail. I'm not up on all the reasons for the change, but you should be able to use the 'defaults' command line tool to do the same thing that trashing prefs used to do. Something like 'defaults delete com.yourcompany.yourapp' should do the trick.
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> Great. For me. For users in the field, the command line is the badlands, and we can’t expect many users to be comfortable doing that. Trashing a file is at least something they can understand, even if sometimes even that can be an ordeal getting them to the ~/Library/Preferences folder, now it’s hidden by default.
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> Really, Apple are supposed to be the champions of the average user aren’t they? Have they talked to any recently? Honestly, it would serve everyone well if every developer served a month in a call centre.
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> I guess we’re going to have to put a button somewhere that’s going to do this for them. Sigh.
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> ―Graham
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