[APBeta] DSS Image library

[Michael Portuesi]

Paul,

I'm only mildly in the minus column.  I do use the DSS feature, but  
not heavy enough to really make a difference with Time Machine on my  
system.

If it is possible to specify an alternate directory to hold the DSS  
database, users could exclude the DSS database from Time Machine  
backups altogether - which is not such a bad idea considering that the  
data is easily retreivable from the Internet in the event of a hard  
drive crash.

On all other accounts, I'm for the idea of putting the DSS library  
into a SQLite database.

m.

On Mar 16, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Mar 16, 2009, at 07:34 PM, Michael Portuesi wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> (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.
>
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