[Adium-devl] Moving chat transcripts to ~/Documents/Adium

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:15 PM, John Bafford wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2009, at 14:09, Dan wrote:
>
>> If you're dying to move 'em out of Application Support/, then how  
>> about ~/Library/Logs/, seeing as they are logs...
>
>
> ~/Library/Logs is not backed up by Time Machine, so I wouldn't want  
> my Adium logs stored there.


	Time Machine regardless, ~/Library/Logs is for an entirely different  
kind of logs than what's being discussed here. All you'll find there  
are, generally put, system admin/maintenance activity logs, while  
Adium logs are really, as the app makes it clear, "chat transcripts".

	I never really liked the deeply nested ~/Library/Application\ Support/ 
Adium\ 2.0/etc/etc/etc transcripts home path, but then again I also  
loath having my ~/Documents directory invaded by stuff I didn't  
personally put there.

	A part of the excerpts Peter sent to the list said that no user data  
should be put under ~/Library, but even Apple clearly violates that by  
using ~/Library/Mail since no one is ever going to convince me that my  
mails aren't "user data". I am convinced, though, that they aren't  
"directly-actionable-by-the-user user data", which is how many here  
could describe Adium's chat transcripts, I believe. So on that idea,  
wouldn't ~/Library/Adium be an option? ~/Library/Application\ Support/ 
Adium (that "2.0" seems so yesterday!) will still of course see lots  
of uses, most of which (if not all) are absolutely transparent to the  
user, but maybe ~/Library/Adium could be considered for the more "user  
oriented" data that's currently tucked under the former...?

>
> just my two cents
>
> -John


	My two cents, in turn,


-jmpp