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macOS Auto delete App Preference file upon closing App?
- Thread starter Jack Flash
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I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but it can be done easily enough.
- If you haven't already done so, you need an object acting as the application's delegate i.e.
- Then you need to implement applicationWillTerminate, and put your code in there.
- You could hard code the path of the preference file by looking in ~/Library/Preferences; but the correct way might be to use NSUserDefaults method removePersistentDomainForName (I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure if that deletes the preference file, but I expect it would).
- If you haven't already done so, you need an object acting as the application's delegate i.e.
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[[NSApplication sharedApplication] setDelegate:self];- Then you need to implement applicationWillTerminate, and put your code in there.
- You could hard code the path of the preference file by looking in ~/Library/Preferences; but the correct way might be to use NSUserDefaults method removePersistentDomainForName (I haven't tried it, so I'm not sure if that deletes the preference file, but I expect it would).
You could use the delegate of [NSApplication sharedApplication] as described above to store the revelent information rather than using preferences, and that is lost when the application closes 
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PS [NSApplication sharedApplication] can be accessed with the constant NSApp.
.PS [NSApplication sharedApplication] can be accessed with the constant NSApp.