On 22 Apr 2002, at 14:34, Peter Castine wrote: > On around 21�4�2002 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something > like: > >Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 17:13:39 -0400 > >From: "David H. Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[] > >As for those who find that keeping their data separate from their > >applications so they can back up their data files more easily, that is > >great, but it is not the only way to approach backups. > > Backing up is only reason #2. > > Reason #1 is handling application updates, which have a strong tendency > to include trashing or rewriting the old application folder... Exercise > for the reader: what does this entail if you've stored documents with the > app? I don't know about the Mac or any other OS, but I have never seen a Windows application that when uninstalled/upgraded deletes anything other than the items it created. This means that if user documents are stored in the application folders, the application folders remain after the program's removal. That said, depending on that to happen every time is pretty much wishful thinking, as it depends on what the programmers for each program decided to do (the scripts that do the removal of the old program may very well be executed by an OS utility program, but the scripts themselves are written by the application programmers, and the scripts are what control what gets removed or not). I still think the #1 reason for doing it is simply to organize your documents by content or subject, instead of by the wholly irrelevant issue of what application created the files. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
