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- Item 0778591 2-Jan-91 22:27GMT
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- From: UK0392 EHN & DIJ Oakley,BDV
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- To: PERRY.G Gregg, Perry
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- cc: MADA.SYSOP MacApp Dev Assoc, Don Sawtelle,IVC
- MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re[again] saving window posns
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- Perry & Friends,
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- Mercifully, we live in a relatively simple world when it comes to multiple
- launches - our users are neither permitted to by licence (each copy is single
- user only) nor would they by desire (it does not fit into the manufacturing
- scenario).
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- However, away from our simple world, I do not dispute what IM recommends, but I
- feel that IM has *not* addressed the problem fully. My System Folder
- accumulates yuck from apps which I no longer have on my hard disk, although I
- do not use any form of file sharing. If I *were* using file-sharing, then what
- should happen if a multiple launch happens? Presumably, the app creates local
- preferences files, i.e. in the user's System Folder. If it does not, then the
- problems are worse, of course. If it does, then every time I launch an app from
- the server, I get even more yuck - big fileserver with many apps -> much yuck,
- much of which may not be needed for a long time! Now it is not impossible to
- think of a Finder mod which dealt with the single user problem (every time the
- user discards an app to trash, the Finder could offer the user a chance to
- discard the Preferences file too - that could be neat!), but there cannot be
- such a method for server-based apps.
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- I hope that ordinary users can look on their System Folder as something once
- set up, they do not keep tinkering with it. I find myself having to clean mine
- up after every new CD ROM has been explored - which on current rates means
- almost once a week. And how many mistakes would our ordinary user make? No,
- please let us keep System Folders for System Files, and not make them enigmatic
- records of all the apps we have ever run. I think that the glib solution in
- Inside Macintosh could do with re-examination.
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- Regards, Howard.
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