[Adium-devl] ByObject prefs suck

[Colin Barrett]

Sure. We currently have ByObject changes every time someone signs off,  
to record the last seen information.

-Colin

On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:11 AM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:

> How often are ByObject values changed? Is there a frequency inherent  
> in some properties that we need to work around? I'm not disagreeing  
> per se, just looking for the inherent need of it all :)
>
> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:
>
>> Indeed, I definitely agree here. David and I have been thinking about
>> this for a while (since WWDC, actually). We discussed it a bit re:
>> Logging, and this area definitely came up.
>>
>> Note in the article that Time Machine maintains a separate copy of
>> each file every time it's changed, so keeping the number of writes  
>> low
>> is important.
>>
>> -Colin
>>
>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:22 PM, David Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Indeed, but backups of say, last seen times are not so useful. We  
>>> may
>>> want to split the more frequent/less useful items out into their own
>>> file(s).
>>>
>>> 							David
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 8:06 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't see any reason why ByObject wouldn't be backed up as normal
>>>> by Time Machine as certain items may want to be recovered in this
>>>> fashion - for example, Contact Notes.
>>>>
>>>> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 8, 2006, at 9:16 PM, David Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Everyone thinking about this topic should read http://
>>>>> developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/apptech.html, specifically  
>>>>> the
>>>>> section on Time Machine. We'll need to carefully consider how
>>>>> ByObject interacts with automatic backups of files.
>>>>>
>>>>> 					David
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