[APBeta] DSS Image library

[Paul Rodman]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 07:34 PM, Michael Portuesi wrote:

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> On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:
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>> The disadvantages would be be (a) those of any large single file,  
>> such as backing up, etc., a single corruption damaging the entire  
>> database*, etc., and (b) non-backwards-compatibility with V1.6.
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> (a) is a big problem on the Mac, with regards to Time Machine.  Time  
> Machine backups don't work well for huge files that change often,  
> and Apple encourages developers to write many small files rather  
> than one huge file.

This is true now, but I'm guessing that Apple will figure out some way  
of diffing the larger files in the future and only keeping the changes  
between one version and the next. So I take it you're in the minus  
column, right?

Paul R.