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::: Actually the settings file for fceugx is already stored in sd:/apps/fceugx and it is never overwritten by new versions (my old settings stay), since settings.xml is created from scratch or modified when the program is ran. Also, fceugx has a file browser so that you can naigate to any folder that contains your ROMs, and it remembers what folder you navigate to even after you turn it off. So there's no problem having more than one version of the application on your SD card, since they can each be set to read the ROMs from a single folder (and Save/Load folders can also be configured in the menu). --[[User:Mr. Reaper|Mr. Reaper]] 19:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
::: Actually the settings file for fceugx is already stored in sd:/apps/fceugx and it is never overwritten by new versions (my old settings stay), since settings.xml is created from scratch or modified when the program is ran. Also, fceugx has a file browser so that you can naigate to any folder that contains your ROMs, and it remembers what folder you navigate to even after you turn it off. So there's no problem having more than one version of the application on your SD card, since they can each be set to read the ROMs from a single folder (and Save/Load folders can also be configured in the menu). --[[User:Mr. Reaper|Mr. Reaper]] 19:50, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
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+:::: fceugx was just an example - you cannot guarantee that all the applications have capability of going into parent directory and then saving the last directory opened, and I'm proposing to use /appdata for all applications. Also to Simon's point if you want to have 2 versions of same application on SD (like stable and beta for testing) use 1 data directory in the case you're proposing you would need to make a copy of that data directory into each /apps/.... directory. I actually think that what you proposing was the case for early homebrew application but that idea just failed. I'm not proposing anything drastically different, just cleanup of the sd card. -- [[User:Spec|Spec]] 04:18, 12 October 2009 (UTC)