Hmm…I’ve had cases where the preferences were corrupted (presumably by Apple, I was only using the APIs) and prevented the app from launching.
In terms of overall problems I think this was second to “I lost my license, can you help me”. Marcel On Nov 27, 2013, at 19:38 , Alex Kac <a...@webis.net> wrote: > While I agree that sometimes deleting a prefs file is useful, its not really > a good idea - never was. Its still asking the user to muck around app > internals. The fact that mavericks now caches really shouldn’t matter. > > I think if deleting your prefs file is a common case, or even somewhat > common, or used at all - then yes, its far more appropriate for you to have a > button. Asking the user to trawl through internal implementation details of > the system was never a good idea. > > So in this case, I think Apple is doing the right thing. _______________________________________________ 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
