[APBeta] Losing resources

[Paul Rodman]

On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:27 AM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:

> Every once in a while, I upgrade AP to the next V2 beta and lose  
> all of my resources. A real source of frustration. I sent a few bug  
> reports, but as I read the list there are not a lot of problems  
> like mine. At first, I thought it was the download application, but  
> not many others were complaining. Then, I thought it was a problem  
> with my Mac. But, still, there was those times when I upgraded with  
> no problems.
>
> I bought a new MacBook Pro. I thought my problems were over...
>
> I just upgraded to V2.0b96 and lost all my resources. I sent a bug  
> report. But this time I realized something that occurred to me  
> before. I'm using Firefox as my primary browser. It seems that  
> whenever I upgrade to the newest beta after a Firefox update AP  
> installs as if it was not previously installed, that is, as a new  
> program and not an upgrade. As I said, this has occurred to me  
> before: upgrade Firefox...upgrade AP...lose resources.
>
> Am I nuts, or can there be a relationship between updating Firefox  
> and losing AP resources.

I don't see why, but who knows?

The default location for pretty much all of the support files on the  
Mac is:

~/Library/Application Support/AstroPlanner

(where "~" is your user folder)

Since you are implying that _everything_ is disappearing, this folder  
is either being renamed or deleted. Do you have any security/virus  
software installed?

What I would do next time you upgrade Firefox is to backup the above  
folder (copy it to the desktop, for example), do the upgrade, and see  
if it has disappeared or has been renamed (before running AP again).  
If so, the Firefox people need to know about this ASAP.

Paul R.