Re: defaults randomly being overwritten?

[Adam Fedor]

Ian Jones wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Further to my original mail about certain parts of my defaults that I 
> had changed with my Preferences.app bundles being overwritten I just 
> started GNUMail and it gave me the warning about having no settings, so 
> I had a look manualy in my .GNUstepDefaults file to find that almost my 
> entire defaults file had been deleted. This is VERY annoying :/ I only 

I haven't been able to replicate this with Preferences or any other app. 
Although I did write a tool to change and synchronize defaults as fast 
as possible, and I did get it to occur about once in 50000 updates. 
That's not really often enough for me to figure out what's wrong. If you 
can get it to happen, perhaps you can insert some NSLog's into 
NSUserDefaults to check the size of the dictionary every once in a while 
so it can be isolated.

Perhaps as a short term fix this should be done anyway and a flag raised 
if the size of the dict changes too much from one sync to another.


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