How to save data from standalone?

[Marielle Lange]

Dear all,

I know this has been discussed many times before but somehow I  
couldn't find definitive answers when searching the doc.

I have designed a neat application to manage my urls the cms way  
(with technorati/delicious type of tagging for each url). You can  
find an alpha version at: http://www.widged.com/products/ 
download_manager/. Cool features, keywords auto-completion, keywords  
list management, etc.

Everything works fine when used in a revstack format. But in  
standalone format, I cannot get the data to be saved between sessions.

All data in download manager are stored as custom properties. Three  
questions:

1. I thought I had read on this list that custom properties were  
saved in standalone format that there was no need to create a splash  
screen to handle this. What did I get wrong?

2. If custom properties get saved when in standalone format, where do  
they get saved? The issue there is that many computers allow for  
multi-users mode. Data shouldn't be saved in the application itself  
but in some user-specific location. So how is it managed?

3. If custom properties don't get saved when in standalone format,  
where should I save the user's data between application uses? I don't  
really want my user to have to open and save the data to a place of  
its choice every time s/he opens the application. I just want the  
freshly opened application to look exactly the same as last time the  
user left it. On a mac, I understand this should be: User/library/ 
Preferences or User/Library/Application Support (with data going  
preferably in the second rather than the first). What is it on a PC?

Many thanks,
I will post the answers on the codes CMS (http://codes.widged.com/). .

Marielle

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