On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Paul Johnson <p...@askerko.net> wrote: > Steve and Kyle, I may not understand the term "Application bundle" > correctly, but to me it shouldn't be something that the program can > store data intot. If I'm wrong, then, for example, reinstalling the > program (and presumably recreating the 'Application bundle') would > destroy the acquired data, which is not a desirable behavior.
Correct, the app should not write into its own app bundle. It might not even be allowed to, if the user doesn't have administrative rights. > I see the data I get from the internet as not in the strictest sense > 'necessary' for the program to run, just that it would be unable to do > very much without it. So using my loose definition, the Application > Support folder would be the place to create my data file. Correct. > Finally, if the Application Support directory and the Application > bundle are not the proper places to put the data (which will be > retained for many future activations of the program), where would that > place be? I certainly don't want to keep it in the Documents folder as > the data is really to be considered as part of the program rather than > as data created by the program. Also correct. The Documents folder is for user-created content only. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
