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Ashish Pancholi
Ashish Pancholi

Reputation: 4649

where to put application data and temp files on mac

We have a Windows Java desktop application that creates some configuration files at %APPDATA% and creates logs at %TEMP% location. Now we are planning to release that desktop application for Mac OS X. We are facing following difficulties:

  1. We do not want to keep application data within .app (file extension app) so please suggest where else we can keep our configuration files.
  2. We do not want to keep temporary files at %TEMP% location in Mac OS X because Mac OS X automatically cleans the %TEMP% location as per schedule.

So we do not want data lose from temp and do not want to keep data with in .app. Please suggest.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4605

Answers (3)

Sean Patrick Floyd
Sean Patrick Floyd

Reputation: 298838

You should probably put the files under /Library/Application Support/<your app> or ~/Library/Application Support/<your app>

If the resources apply to all users on the system, such as document templates, place them in /Library/Application Support. If the resources are user-specific, such as workspace configuration files, place them in the current user’s ~/Library/Application Support directory.

Source: Determining Where to Store Your App-Specific Files

Upvotes: 5

svoop
svoop

Reputation: 3454

Either ~/Library/Application Support or ~/Library/Caches come to mind. Use the APIs if possible.

Upvotes: 0

Jigar Joshi
Jigar Joshi

Reputation: 240870

We do not want to keep application data within .app (file extension app) so please suggest where else we can keep our configuration files.

Use Preference API

We do not want to keep temporary files at %TEMP% location in MAC OS because MAC OS automatically clean %TEMP% location as per schedule.

Create a dir under user.home to keep temp data

Upvotes: 2

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