Peter, /Library/Preferences is indeed set only to root. Applications don't typically save their settings in there. Applications usually save their settings in ~/Library/Preferences (note the "~" meaning the user's home folder).
-Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com On Jul 20, 2011, at 18:31, Peter C wrote: > Hello all, > > This is a question that involves 10.7 (Lion). I believe it is allow to > discuss about 10.7 at this moment, as 10.7 is release (on sale) to public. > List administrator please remove this email if you think it is not allow to > discuss this. > > Some of the programs I wrote save a preference file into /Library/Preferences > via NSDictionary. This serves as a general settings for all users. Many other > 3rd party software (Skype, Microsoft and etc) saves preferences file into > this directory too. This works from 10.0 to 10.6. > > However I notice this has change under OS 10.7. The directory > (/Library/Preferences) permission is set to drwxr-xr-x, meaning only root > user is accessible to this directory. It is not possible to save any file > into this directory anymore. I have check two Macs with clean Lion > installations, it is confirm the directory is root user read/write only. > Running disk utility does not fix the permission. This will affect many apps > written pre-Lion. > > I believe the permission is set wrongly but there maybe there is a reason why > Apple wants to set it this way. At the moment I have no access to Mac > Developer forum, so I can't confirm. I hope some one can enlighten me on this > issue. > > Assuming OS 10.7 is correct setting /Library/Preferences to root user > read/write only, where should I put global Preference file ? > > Currently I am thinking of moving/merge the preference file to > /User/<name>/Library/Preferences for OS 10.7 but that will be user preference > file, not global. > > Peter C _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
