On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mike Abdullah wrote: > > On 24 Oct 2012, at 16:24, Alex Zavatone wrote: > >> We're currently looking at expanding one of our applications from 1 office >> to up to 40. >> >> It's an app that needs an internal preference to be set and remembered >> through updates or reinstalls. > > I’m confused, what stops a regular preference from persisting across updates > and reinstalls?
Well, according to the docs, the preferences folder is within the app. Therefore, when replacing the app, (which is a folder) the entire contents of the app would be expected to be replaced. To anyone who has been using a Mac since they came out and knows how folders work, this is the expected behaviour. Nothing I have read has told me otherwise. Why would an app's contents be preserved on a fresh install? And if they would be preserved on a fresh install, where is this documented so that we know where to find information like this. Thanks man. _______________________________________________ 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
