Is this relevant here? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12488462/ios-directory-structure-whats-snapshots-file
Thanks, -- Raul On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ric and Bill. > > Just so's I know it's working for me and not somebody else. I'd hate to > distribute an app – even a beta – especially a beta – which goes around > slurping the user's intellectual property. > > Xcode appears to have total control over the snap directory. Unlike > Apple:Finder (which as a rule hides dirs/files beginning with dot) it can > open ~user/snap/.snp – and edit or delete its contents. Though I haven't > tried… like Bill, I shy away from trashing things I don't understand. > Unless I have a spare week to explore the consequences. > > Right now, it contains an old copy of just one J script – nested in > gibberish directories. I've no idea what I did to snapshot that one > particular script, and I feel it's something I need to know. It's a vital > script and would cause big trouble if it ever got executed… or regressed. I > may just delete its contents and make it say a rude message if/when it's > ever loaded. A great use for the Mac's superb text-to-speech facility: you > can even make it say it in Russian. (Suggestions, please…) > > JQt Autosave, eh? Bill and Ric reinforce my suspicions. If it's owned by > jqt then I'll take a chance it won't alter. Because I don't have jqt in my > mini-installation, which is for JHS only. > > BTW: I don't see a lot here about JHS as a faceless daemon talking through > a pretty Apple face, whether macOS or iOS. But I'm convinced it has a > future, and now I have hard evidence. If anyone on this list is working > along similar lines and wants to see where I'm up to, pm me and I'll > cheerfully zip-up an Xcode project or two and email you a box link. > > Ian > > > On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 4:31 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think snap have been there for over may year. It >> autosave recent versions during edit session. In J8 you can >> use config to set maximum number of snapshot or disable it. >> But I suggest you do not disable it even if you think you don't >> need its service. Perhaps it can help you just in case. >> You can delete its content when you think they are no >> longer needed. >> >> You may add a run script in xcode build phases to automatically trash >> files inside the snap folder. (untested) >> >> snap folder may or may not be re-created, this depends on your >> profile.ijs or profilex.ijs >> >> Сб, 08 июл 2017, Ian Clark написал(а): >> > Inside an Apple Xcode project, I am managing a cut-down J805 installation >> > which gets embedded in the resulting app. The app (TABULA) is nearing the >> > beta-test stage and I must attend to questions of security. Such as: its >> > capacity for harboring concealed trojans. >> > >> > >> > Xcode has discovered J code I didn't know existed in a folder: >> > J64-805-user/snap/ >> > >> > This folder seems to be created at installation time of J64-805 itself, >> and >> > my mini J installation has inherited it. It is moderately large (88KB), >> but >> > not as large as /Applications/j64-805/addons (36.4 MB). >> > >> > >> > When I open it in osx Finder, it pretends to be empty. But Xcode/Find >> makes >> > its contents perfectly visible. More to the point, Xcode allows me to >> edit >> > this J code -- and the edit persists across finds. >> > >> > >> > I recognise some of the contents as J source code I myself have written, >> > maybe out-of-date code. >> > >> > >> > ++ Can I safely delete J64-805-user/snap/ from my Xcode project folder? >> > What, if anything, will fall over as a result? Will J64-805-user/snap/ >> get >> > re-created inside the distributed app? Maybe even restored? >> > >> > >> > ++ Can the J code inside J64-805-user/snap/ conceivably be executed? I >> > would like to be reassured it never can. >> > >> > >> > I have searched http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/ for the word "snap" but >> the >> > results cast no light on the matter for me. >> > >> > >> > I can take a shrewd guess at what /snap/ is intended to do. But to guess >> is >> > not to know. Can anyone help, please? >> > >> > >> > Ian Clark >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> >> -- >> regards, >> ==================================================== >> GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 >> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 >> gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --armor --export 4434BAB3 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
