On 3/15/06 15:15, "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This isn't really true, John. According to Apple's developer guidelines, > ~/Documents is for files/folders the user creates directly, whereas > ~/Library/Application Support contains support files *and* data created > indirectly. For example, many apps that act as "databases" store all their > data -- properly -- in Application Support. The contents of Application > Support are certainly not all stuff that can be "recreated at will." > > (Yes, I know that Apple breaks its own guidelines by placing Safari and Mail > folders in ~/Library, when they should go in ~/Library/Application Support, > but that's a different issue ;-) We both know that Apple has always broken > its own developer guidelines; that's not a good reason for everyone else to > do it, too.) > > > I think the bigger point here is that any backup worth anything should > include both ~/Documents *and* ~/Library. There's simply too much important > stuff in ~/Library not to back it up, too. Library data is convenient. It's annoying to recreate, but it doesn't make existing work go buh-bye. Documents going away means existing work went away too. To the human, the work is important, not stupid computer settings, and that's all the library is. As well, who creates the data in the E'rage database? Someone else? An as of yet unknown process? No, the *human* creates the data in that database. By that definition, it's a document. It's not a setting. It's not a preference. It is user created data, and user manipulated data, and just like a photoshop file, that makes it a document. -- Just because one of those made you feel nice and two of em made you feel even better, taking the whole bottle will not exponentially increase your good time. In fact, you may get dizzy, or throw up, or end up spending half of the next day wondering where the hell your pants are. Or die. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
