Preferences not saving about flycut HOT 9 CLOSED

I had this issue on version 1.5 (2011) recently on OS X 10.8.5, and realised that checking the preference "Dropbox Sync" was screwing it up.

Now I've it unchecked and it saves my preferences normally when I quit.

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@bool-dev Apple forbids to use CGEventPost call for sandboxed apps. And this part is very import as we use CGEventPost to emulate Command+V shortcut. So there is no way to update AppStore version without breaking main functionality.

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I'm seeing this problem too, exactly as @douglsmith has described.

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This appears to be a defect of meaning originating somewhere back in the jumpcut code, though I haven't done the full archaeology on it. The "Save" preference is linked to the "savePreference" user default which appears to be used in the code to indicate for saving of preferences as well as saving of clippings (they are both saved to the same file, fwiw). I would suggest that we change Flycut to always save preferences and use the "Save" preference exclusively to control saving of clippings.

Thoughts? Is there any scenario where saving of Flycut preferences would be undesirable? Preferences and clippings are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Flycut/com.generalarcade.flycut.plist.

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My initial analysis was incorrect. After digging into DBUserDefaults, NSUserDefaults, and the Flycut / Jumpcut code history I figured out how the preferences are saved. A fix has been submitted via pull request #40.

The problem originated in revision 8 of Jumpcut, which added use of NSUserDefaults without a call to NSUserDefaults's synchronize function on exit. NSUserDefaults documentation states that synchronize is automatically invoked at periodic intervals but not automatically at exit and thus was unreliable without an explicit call. The problem was masked by a call to synchronize whenever a clipping was added if save is enabled. Gennadiy improved synchronization in 2011 when he added clip storage to the same file as preferences. At exit, if the preferences say to save the clippings list, the change Gennadiy made will save the preferences. I extended upon that by calling synchronize at exit if the preferences say not to save the clippings list.

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Still not fixed!! On El Capitan.

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@bool-dev version 1.8?

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@TermiT Sorry missed your comment. Version 1.5 from AppStore, any reason that isn't updated as yet?

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@TermiT thanks for explaining that! Done, 1.8 works as expected!

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