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Make the transient nature of added files explicit
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tallforasmurf committed Jun 8, 2016
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Expand Up @@ -123,7 +123,15 @@ Adding Files to the Bundle

To add files to the bundle, you create a list that describes the files
and supply it to the ``Analysis`` call.
To find the data files at run-time, see :ref:`Run-time Information`.
When you bundle to a single folder (see :ref:`Bundling to One Folder`),
the added data files are copied into the folder with the executable.
When you bundle to a single executable (see :ref:`Bundling to One File`),
copies of added files are compressed into the executable, and expanded to the
``_MEI``\ *xxxxxx* temporary folder before execution.
This means that any changes a one-file executable makes to an added file
will be lost when the application ends.

In either case, to find the data files at run-time, see :ref:`Run-time Information`.


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