On 2009/08/18(火), at 後12:28, David W. Fenton wrote:
My understanding was that on the Mac the preferences were as binary file, and thus, not susceptible to being edited in part. Maybe I'm wrong on that?
You are correct in case of Finale. Since OSX, Apple has been encouraging developers to replace bin pref with XML, the plist. Many apps dated before OSX have note been moved out of bin pref file format, where the trouble occurs.
If the developer closes pref file every time user chose to save the pref, like FinMac has such option, then crash won't corrupt pref file, while most of developers choose to close the pref file at its exit. Open/close often during a session may cause performance hit. If crash happens before closing, the pref file will be corrupt. The puzzling part of FinMac is that it seems they are keep opening it till exit even though they added Save Pref menu. I constantly have to trash FinMac pref file because it gets corrupted so easily when I move default window position around. This is a known bug to MM.
Unfortunately FinMac keeps both bin pref and XML plist, the former records recent open files, and latter records last used directory. I think they need to do some cleaning up to do in this department.
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