Sharing preferences between applications is not something you can rely on in a sandboxed environment. On 10.7, Preview and TextEdit are sandboxed so if you're seeing this behavior with them, that's why. You can reasonably expect more applications to be sandboxed in the future.
On 6/21/12 2:44 PM, "Scott Ribe" <scott_r...@elevated-dev.com> thusly spake: > On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > >> I guess the question is, why do you care whether the preferences have been >> written to disk? As long as everyone is using the correct API to access >> preferences, it doesn't matter whether CFPreferences is caching them in >> memory before flushing them to disk. > > Because they do not always get flushed to disk; sometimes they disappear. > Because it is completely random whether or not changes are visible to other > applications that share them--despite their having been sync'd. Chad Hulbert Software Engineer Xerox Corporation 800 Phillips Rd Webster, NY 14580 p 585.427.3295 (8*707.3295) _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
