Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Vojtěch Meluzín
Thanks Sean, will do! A little comment for the fabulous Steve Mills: *Says the guy still typing return at the end of every line because that newfangled automatic wrapping is like some kind of voodoo that you don't trust because it's not the way you used to do it all for decades, not to mention t

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Sean McBride
On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:36:26 -0400, Mike Throckmorton said: >Try replacing FSDeleteObject with [[NSFileManager defaultManager] >removeItemAtPath: pth error: &erro]; Don't do that, it's sorta-deprecated too. :) You want removeItemAtURL:error:. Sean

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Sandor Szatmari
On Apr 25, 2018, at 12:00, Rob Petrovec wrote: >> On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:32 AM, Vojtěch Meluzín >> wrote: >> apple forcing devs to change stuff all the time (wasting our time) is just >> sad >FSDeleteObject was deprecated in 10.8. That was 5 releases & 5 years ago. > So I don’t know what

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Steve Mills
On Apr 25, 2018, at 10:45:47, David Young wrote: > > This hateful stuff doesn't really belong on this list, does it? It wasn't hateful, just a further illustration of how he doesn't like change or want to use modern conveniences. -- Steve Mills Drummer, Mac geek __

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Rob Petrovec
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 9:32 AM, Vojtěch Meluzín > wrote: > apple forcing devs to change stuff all the time (wasting our time) is just sad FSDeleteObject was deprecated in 10.8. That was 5 releases & 5 years ago. So I don’t know what you mean by “forcing devs to change stuff all the tim

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread David Young
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:34:24AM -0500, Steve Mills wrote: > Says the guy still typing return at the end of every line because that > newfangled automatic wrapping is like some kind of voodoo that you don't > trust because it's not the way you used to do it all for decades, not to > mention ty

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Matthew Kozak
LOL, "better" and "badly" are subjective. To belabor your original metaphor, if Apple is indeed selling gasoline cars, we're still looking for hybrid/electric ones. if only we could have skipped the gasoline and had thoughtful development right to solar/electric/etc. (instead of climate chang

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Steve Mills
> On Apr 25, 2018, at 09:45:00, MeldaProduction > wrote: > > Apple is simply covering badly designed APIs So you want to keep using "badly designed APIs"? Why?! > Look at Windows, it's backwards > compatible without problems for like 20 years now "Without problems". That's hilarious. > That

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread MeldaProduction
I don't think this is applicable here. If you have a function to "delete a file", it will still be a function to delete a file, there's no improvement! Apple is simply covering badly designed APIs, which do work, they are far from ideal, but they work. If they replace an API, they need to provide f

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Dave
> On 25 Apr 2018, at 14:43, Steve Mills wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2018, at 08:32:14, Vojtěch Meluzín > wrote: >> >> Thanks Mike, i'll probably try. I am reluctant to do that, because api is >> api and apple forcing devs to change stuff all the time (wasting our time) >> is just sad. Plus i just

Re: Persistent User Defaults

2018-04-25 Thread Clark Cox
> On Apr 24, 2018, at 16:14, Jack Brindle wrote: > > Interestingly it appears that if they are changed back the change is still > written to the plist so that over time you may get the entire set there. > > - Jack FWIW, that’s up to the program, and is not dictated by the user defaults syst

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Steve Mills
On Apr 25, 2018, at 08:32:14, Vojtěch Meluzín wrote: > > Thanks Mike, i'll probably try. I am reluctant to do that, because api is > api and apple forcing devs to change stuff all the time (wasting our time) > is just sad. Plus i just cannot imagine how it could cause things to be > that bad. An

Re: Deleting files extremely slow since OSX High sierra

2018-04-25 Thread Vojtěch Meluzín
Thanks Mike, i'll probably try. I am reluctant to do that, because api is api and apple forcing devs to change stuff all the time (wasting our time) is just sad. Plus i just cannot imagine how it could cause things to be that bad. And finally people here seem to report general problems... Well app

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