Cerulian, learn how to program a Mac app

[branchandroot]

Cerulian, wtf kind of file path was /that/?!

Okay, for anyone else who may be wondering, as of version 6 for Mac, the file path to where Trillian locally stores chat logs on a Mac is:

Home -> Library -> Containers -> com.cerulianstudios.trillian.osx -> Data -> Library -> Application Support -> Trillian -> Users -> [yourusername] -> logs

Yes, for real. There are a really insane number of recursive aliases back to Home and Library folders stuck in there, and Cerulian built an extra Application Support folder down this access path. I had to sit there and stare for a while, mouthing 'what the fuck' at the screen, and that's after my disbelief over technology shenanigans has, frankly, been hung by the neck until dead by various of my faculty this year.

I promptly created a shortcut for the Trillian folder and stuffed it into the Library where I can find it again.

Comments

[niqaeli]

*staring*

I gave up on Trillian some years back for various reasons, but this is particularly WTF.

[branchandroot]

*glum* Yeah. I've been looking for something to replace Adium, when I finally bite the bullet and upgrade my OS, and Trillian will do both local and cloud storage of logs if you pay them, and it does the interface plaintext the way I like, so. But I had to find this abomination of a filepath by playing pin the tail on the folder, because there is /no/ documentation or even helpful tips in other forums. I figured it was my public service for the week to post it.

[niqaeli]

Yeah, excellent choice! Because that is *batshit*.

I'd frankly kill to be able to make Discord do local as well as cloud storage of logs. I've come around to the value of cloud storage of logs for cross-device use, but I really, really desperately wish I could give it a date/time range for a given channel and make it spit out a locally stored and cleanly formatted log file.

Instead of what I currently have to do, which is scroll around in the logs, copy-paste manually into a code editor to strip all the extraneous line-break kibble (and which, annoyingly, also strips all formatting markup like italics and so on but is a sacrifice I'm willing to make to not have to clean up endless weird line break bullshit), and then paste into a proper word processor.

I should see if someone's written a third-party tool, at some point.

[branchandroot]

*rueful* Yeah, I'm looking at /years/ of Adium logs and kind of crying over them. I mean, it's good xml, but I'm going to have to write a parser myself if I want to have a human-readable form.

[trobadora]

... wow. That is sure something. *stares*

[branchandroot]

I know, right? I got to that duplicate Application Support folder (not even a shortcut!) and just... yeah.