On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> > What's new is that your app doesn't "write" there per se. Apple is now > requiring that the OS write there on your behalf, using either the > theNSUserDefaults Cocoa class or the CFPreferences API. > > At face value this seems silly, since of course being able to write a file > to a given location isn't exactly rocket science truly requiring OS-level > support. > > Maybe, maybe not. From my observance of the Apple Forums I would say well over 90% of the advise given whenever OS X or an app starts misbehaving is: Start Disk Utility and 'Repair Disk Permissions'* and Trash the app Preference file. I've seen similar advise given on this List. As it clearly works, it would suggest that for whatever reason, Preference files are regularly not written correctly or are written in a way which corrupts other app Preference files. Counter to this argument is the same advise is given even for Apple's own apps, but I'm wondering again, is this because so many apps interact with Apple apps, iTunes in particular. Do these 3rd party apps go in and try to read/write iTunes prefs, but since iTunes has updated AGAIN, the data is on a different line or in a different format so it comes back as gobbledygook, which is then saved as garbage? This is a big IF, but IF Apple could reduce by 50% the number of times an Apple non-Rocket Scientist had to suggest 'Trash the app Preference file' this would be a huge time saving to allow the Genius to attend to more complex customer needs. Maybe this is why Apple feel compelled to sanitise how developers interact with the Preference Folder. Like, Bob, I would just hope that RunRev quickly implement the API. * One difference I've noted Lion has over all previous OS X's I've used; no matter how many time I run 'Repair Disk Permissions' and how many time's it reports files with the wrong permissions and it says it's fixed; there are ALWAYS files that will reappear in the next run. I've never been able to get a 'clean' run until Lion. JavaVM is an habitual offender, which I believe has been removed from Lion. RemoteManagement and Menu Extras is another I can never fix on pre-Lion. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
