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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A weird utility & installing sys 7.0
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Date: 18 May 91 22:43:54 GMT
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In article <1991May18.184711.20619@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) writes:
>jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:
>>Instead of putting preferences files in the preferences folder, I set their
>>invisible bits. I used to do this with DiskTop, but my version doesn't seem
>>to work any more (yes, it's a legal copy, but old). I can do it with ResEdit,
>>but it's too slow.
>
>Dumb. What is someone wants to copy their app -- now they can't take the prefs
>with them. Also, they can't double-click on the prefs file to launch the
>app with that set of prefs -- irritating when more than one person is using
>the app, or they have more than one set of prefs. Just because you auto-save
>the prefs file in the system folder doesn't mean they are locked into only one
>set.

I am sure he was speaking as a user organizing his own personal Mac - not as
a programmer who writes apps that create invisible pref files.

Sure, it may sound a little anal-retentive but I don't think it's dumb.
In my own ways, I'm rather anal about how I organize all my stuff.  :-)

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