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Regarding the switch in the preferences
Authored by: hamarkus on May 12, '04 03:18:44PM

Regarding the switch in the preferences, unfortunately, a lot of (X11) programs use shell scripts (e.g. Matlab uses one for its start-up).

One could still use the switch together with a list of exempted scripts/programs, but every programmer using shell scripts would have to put it in their ReadMe that there will be a message about it the first time you run the program.

Another idea would be for OS X to create instantaneous internal back-ups of parts of the User folder and assigning these back-ups to another user. These back-ups could be done for some of the stuff in ~/Library and other files or folders a user specifies. They would be protected by a special password.



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