I agree. Also, the factory clippings should be versioned, so one can
see if he has the last version.

On 3 Dic, 21:37, RobS <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 1:46 pm, Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The subsystem that makes that decision looks at the existing
> > contents of your various Application Support/BBEdit/ subfolders,
> > and if they line up, the subfolder gets updated. So if your
> > Clippings have been modified, it'll skip the update.
>
> Computers being computers, they'd be very useful at a task such as
> updating. ;-)
>
> For example, the update software could not just enquire as to whether
> or not changes were made in one of the Clippings sub-folders and then
> come to a full stop if any are found. Rather it could drill down to
> the file level and update the sub-folders on a file by file basis,
> adding any new folders as required. It might even pop up a useful
> comment to the affect that it found a file which it would love to
> update but I had modified it and what would I like to do.
>
> BBEdit users are the most likely kind of users to modify things like
> the Clippings folder. I would guess that the majority of users did not
> get the current Clippings folder because their old one contained
> modified files. The installer should at least make an effort to notify
> them of that during the update.
>
> Rob

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