User Control

You cannot specify which kinds of items are allowed to be in the Documents folder. Users can add any materials they like, and they can remove any items they want to remove. What they cannot do, however, is navigate through subfolders using the iTunes interface. Notice the Inbox folder in Figure 11-3. This is an artifact left over from application-to-application document sharing, and it should not be there. Users cannot manage that data directly, and you should not leave the subfolder there to confuse them.

Users cannot delete the Inbox in iTunes the way they can delete other files and folders. Nor should your application write files directly to the Inbox. Respect the Inbox’s role, which is to capture any incoming data from other ...

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