bbum’s rants, code & references : bbum’s rants, code & references
Do not ever, under any circumstances, for any reason, store prefs in the app folder. It is a bad, bad idea no matter what way you look at it. It is just lazy. There are places to store writable stuff that are well documented and well convered in this thread. In the app wrapper is NOT ONE OF THEM.
Almost as annoying applications that insist on traveling in an enclosing folder (Mozilla, Archipelago). And I note that Archipelago stores its user prefs in whatever folder it’s in. If you take it out of its folder and put it in Applications, you get a prefs file at the same level. On a multiuser system, whose prefs are they? And there’s account information in there: how secure is that?