I’m using the Desktop version of Manager on macOS Ventura (13.6.4). I recently updated my copy of Manager to 24.4.8.1419, and I just noticed that a new folder has appeared in my Documents folder. The folder is called Manager.io and the only thing in it is a tiny (74 byte) file called ‘data’. This is bad behaviour for a Mac app. The Documents folder should be reserved for the user to save their documents, not used by apps to save data files and the like. Is this a bug or new intended behaviour? Is it safe to delete this folder? Not sure if this is relevant, but another thing that happened when I upgraded to this version is that Manager didn’t know where my data file was. It turned out I didn’t know where it was either! I had long ago moved it to a custom location but I didn’t realise that Manager had (sometime around 2017 it seems), changed it back to ‘~/.local/share/Manager’, and what I thought was my Manager file was now many years out of date. So, I located the current file, moved it back to where I wanted it, and used the ‘Change Folder’ button (that appears at the very bottom of the window when you first open Manager) to get things in sync again.

[image] Kal: I notice that the ‘Change Data Folder…’ command now exists in the Mac’s File menu. I assume this replaces the ‘Change Folder’ button that used to appear at the bottom of the window when you first opened Manager. That’s correct. The old Change Folder button would be creating data file. New command doesn’t. So when you use the new Change Folder function to set your custom data folder, you can delete data file manually because new version won’t be creating it anymore.

'Manager.io' folder appearing in user 'Documents' folder on Mac

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'Manager.io' folder appearing in user 'Documents' folder on Mac

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