In this section, we're going to talk about application settings for sandbox apps.
Now, what is a sandbox app?
Well, I think it's easier to try to show you at the same time rather than just explaining it.
So let's go into our library containers folder and let's go ahead and do a listing.
And you can see that there looks like files that look similar to the names that we've seen previously
in preference files.
But one difference is, is that you can see that these are all directories.
There are not files.
So we worked in the previous lesson on Microsoft remote desktop because it was an App Store app.
Now, all App Store apps are what are known as containerboard apps or sandbox apps.
They're basically the same thing.
So let's go ahead and go into the directory for Microsoft remote desktop.
And let's take a listing of it, and you can see that we've got two one file in one directory now the
container list is basically explains how the container works.
And we're going to ignore that because this isn't really a lesson on containers themselves.
And so let's go into the let's go into the data directory and take a listing of that.
Now, what's interesting here is this folder layout kind of looks like your home directory.
And you can see that we've got a lot of similar things that actually do point to your actual home directory.
So if I change my directory to desktop and I do a listing, you can see I can see the files on my desktop,
but yet I'm not in my desktop folder.
So let's go back and you can see that there is a directory that's not sent blank and that is our library
folder.
So let's go into the library folder and let's take a listing of that.
And you can see again, we've got a lot of similar links, except for there's a couple folders that
are not one of them is preferences.
So let's go into preferences and take a look there.
And here we have a file that is named like a purplest file that would just be in our normal user library
preferences folder.
And so that's this is actually the preference file for Microsoft remote desktop.
Now, a Sandbox app only has access to this folder.
It does not have any access to any other folders on your system.
That's the point.
That's the container.
It's a self-contained app that doesn't have access to your system and therefore can't cause harm to
your system.
But I wanted to point this out because every all your preference files are going to be in a different
location.
So let's go ahead and launch Microsoft remote desktop.
And you could see that I simply just have one desktop and it's to my and it's to the server that I've
been using in the active directory lessons.
Let's quit Microsoft remote desktop and let's move.
This police file, let's just move it to my actual desktop and so it's no longer there and let's go
ahead and launch Microsoft remote desktop and you can see it looks like it's fresh out of the box.
So let me go ahead and quit it and then I'm going to go ahead and move this plussed file.
Back to the this folder, and now when I launch a remote desktop, I can see my server, so that's where
the preferences for Microsoft remote desktop.
Now, I don't want to do one other.
I mean, it's going to work exactly the same.
But we've been using Apple remote desktop throughout this.
And if you've been following along, you might have a lot of jobs and you might want to back that.
You might want to back those jobs up.
So let's go into.
The the preferences folder for remote desktop and basically the same thing, so if I launch Apple remote
desktop.
You can see that I've got my smart groups and I've got all the jobs that we've been using in these lessons,
so I'm going to go ahead and quit remote desktop.
And when you do this, by the way, make sure it's quit, you don't want to overwrite your preference
files.
So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to move.
The Penglase file again to my desktop, and then I'm going to launch remote desktop again, and you
can see it's like it's fresh out of the box.
OK, it's quit, and I'm just going to go ahead and move it back into place.
And when I launch remote desktop.
I'll have all my jobs back.
Now, what's good about this is I mean, remote desktop and Microsoft remote desktop are probably not
applications are going to push out to other users.
But there are things that you're going to use them yourself.
And so if you're if you're not pushing out container apps to your users and you're not really worried
about the preferences, but you use these apps now, you know how to back them up.
You could put these files on Dropbox.
And if you have these programs on other computers, you can get them into place and you can just use
you can have all your remote desktop jobs on any computer that you use.