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Thanks Hal,
Isn't having it in Documents because it syncs a good thing?
Then on upgrades the cache is still available. So from the selfish
perspective or apps wouldn't that be a good thing?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Hal Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you have a shipping app (or even more importantly, a close-to-shipping
> app), pay special attention to
> http://code.google.com/p/route-me/issues/detail?id=109:
>
> The existing FMDB/SQLite tile cache stores its data in a subdirectory of 
> ~/Documents.
>
> ~/Documents is backed up when the iPhone syncs. Apple recommends using 
> ~/Library/Caches for
> any cache data that can be regenerated; that folder is not backed up.
>
>
> Each cache, for each tilesource, is backed up on each sync. This makes the
> syncs quite slow. Apple best practices says to put any data that can be
> regenerated into ~/Library/Caches, which is not backed up.
>
> If you haven't shipped yet, just switch the folder that FMDB uses. This
> probably needs to be done on both the trunk and a branch for 0.5 (we're
> picking up other 0.5 patches, might end up pushing a 0.51); any volunteers
> to do this?
>
> If you have shipped, it's more complicated. You already have a cache in
> ~/Documents. Simply changing the FMDB code won't be enough. You'll have to
> push a new version that cleans out the old cache(s) in ~/Documents. If you
> have changed the unique tilesource identifier, you'll have even more dead
> data in there.
>
> Another point: at least a couple of us have received rejections from Apple
> for not handling the case of no network connectivity on app launch. In my
> case, I was presenting a mostly blank  screen if no tiles could be
> downloaded and the cache was blank. It's simple to add an alert for this
> case (following the Reachability sample code) instructing the user to
> connect to a network.
>
> I'll be sending out a longer WWDC summary today or tomorrow, but wanted to
> get this in front of everyone right away.
> Hal
>
>
> >
>

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