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Warning - the Find box can delete source folders!
Authored by: zpjet on Sep 29, '04 06:25:27PM

yes it was unchecked. i was actually surprised that safari recreated its preferences during the session. i thought preferences are read/written only when opening/closing apps?



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Warning - the Find box can delete source folders!
Authored by: zpjet on Sep 29, '04 06:45:41PM

actually, i had a hard time for a few seconds with a prospect of loosing my prefs/mails/keychain that i'm not very sure what was happening just after... i just did command-z immediately and thought everything's okay. then i noticed command-t is not working and i knew, that"s"word, it's NOT okay. i opened my home folder and the library one was plain folder icon with a few folders inside (caches, cookies and preferences with a few plists of running apps). then i noticed the right library folder (with colored icon) is on desktop (?) so i moved the new one to somewhere and the old one to the right place. then i logged off... fortunately, everything is okay.

but i would appreciate somebody explains how apps and/or filesystem behaves when opening files for writing... does it always just create a new file? was it different in system 9? i think i remember moving text file around a disk and still saving to the same one.



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