Re: Preferences caching?
Re: Preferences caching?
- Subject: Re: Preferences caching?
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:00:30 +0000
Hmm…I’ve had cases where the preferences were corrupted (presumably by Apple, I was only using the APIs) and prevented the app from launching.
In terms of overall problems I think this was second to “I lost my license, can you help me”.
Marcel
On Nov 27, 2013, at 19:38 , Alex Kac <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> So in this case, I think Apple is doing the right thing.
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