[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Per user dirs on Non-Unix platforms (was Re: [Python-Dev] Where to install non-code files)

[James Durchenwald]

It was I that actually said that. When logging out you get a VERY 
noticeable delay that I had attributed to the OS copying files. 
(There is also disk activity at logout time.) That was why I figured 
they had done something skanky like actually copying the files. I 
could most definitely been wrong. I could test this tonight when I 
get home to my Multiuser system if anyone cares.

James


>At 23:56 +0200 5/29/2000, Jack Jansen wrote:
>>BTW: I doubt that MacOS9 actually copies the preferences folder
>>around, as someone suggested, I would guess that it simply adjusts the
>>value returned by FindFolder. Programs that don't use FindFolder but
>>hardcoded pathnames get stomped on rather seriously in non-US MacOS
>>versions since about 1992, so I don't think there's many of them left.
>
>I believe Jack is correct about the not-copying of the special folders.
>Some programs work under Mac OS 9.x but fail under Mac OS 9.x with multi
>user on, largely because they "know" where the special folders are instead
>of asking.  (MPW except the very new development version is one such.)
>
>    --John
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