Cadent Computing Inc.

Wow, have I ever dropped the ball when testing the Mac version of Cadent wineCellar!  For over a year now I did not catch a very obvious bug which must have aggravated many users who were trying out Cadent wineCellar for the first time.

Basically, when you first start wineCellar, it creates an initial default database for you to use.  This "was" supposed to be created under your Documents folder on a Mac.  An oversight on my part left this default location hardcoded to be the Documents folder for the user "doug"!  Since I expect most users our there do not have a username doug, this completely broke wineCellar for everyone on a Mac when it is first launched.  Two main symptoms:  1- popup menus on the Add Wine screen would not initially work, and 2- wines do not get saved.  This second one is especially bad and I am amazed this did not get caught until now.

If you create a new database using File->New Database or open the sample database using File->Open Database, then things would correct themselves and all would be well.  I can only imagine that this is what current Mac users have been doing.

Well, this will teach me to keep using my own account for testing.  Doing so masked this long-standing bug from me.

I have addressed this issue with wineCellar version 2.5.  However, if you have run wineCellar on a Mac and have not changed to a different database (via New Database or Open Database), the wrong default is now embedded in wineCellar's preference file so the update will not correct it.  Use New Database to correct the problem.

Once again, I'm very sorry this issue has stayed around uncaught for so long.  The bad default path never made it into the Windows version so there is no version 2.5 for Windows.