Hello!
I had very strange situations where my app "forgot" data and
"remebered" it some days later. Kind of voodoo feeling...
The third time it happened, I tracked it down...
I am on Mac OS 10.4.6, RB 2006r2.
SpecialFolder.ApplicationData was returning wrong data. Instead of
"user:Library:Application Support:" it returned
"HD:Library:Application Support:". Because the global Application
Support directory is always exisiting, my app doesn't crashed in this
situations, it just doesn't found its data and recreated empty files.
But I was sure that SpecialFolder.ApplicationData was working for me
before. So I locked out from the system and in again: no change. But
after a system restart SpecialFolder.ApplicationData was working again.
I don't know the action to reproduce, but I decided to don't trust it
anymore. When it fails, the way from Desktop still works...
aDBFile = SpecialFolder.Desktop
aDBFile = aDBFile.Parent()
aDBFile = aDBFile.Child("Library")
aDBFile = aDBFile.Child("Application Support")
... I checked this before restarting, so I decided to use this always.
BTW: I am using FileVault to protect my PowerBook and there are
always some apps which can't handle pathes anymore when FileVault is
activated. Are these RB apps? ...using SpecialFolder? Is there
somebody who can confirm this at all, with or without FileVault?
I would file a bug if I would be able to reproduce it...
Best,
Marcel
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