Yes, I see that the /Library requires elevated permission which is way beyond
me.
Terry, it does look like I could write to the temporary folder, but I read that
that folder may get cleared on restart. However, the Users/Shared folder seems
available, so Bob and Richmond seem to be right. This works:
put specialFolderpath("usrs") & "/Shared/ArtsInteractive" into tURL
I’ll work with that.
Peter
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Any user has write permissions to the users/<username>/library folder. No
> one, even administrators has write permissions to the /library folder. You
> would need to elevate the process somehow. That has come up before, and I am
> not sure what came of it. There is a shared folder that all users have write
> access to, but this is not the typical place to put prefs files.
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 23:45 , Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I get "can't create that directory (13)”
>>
>> The challenge is to write a pref file to a non-user directory so the file is
>> available to all users in a lab setting.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>>>
>>>> In attempting to create this folder in MacOS:
>>>>
>>>> put specialFolderpath("asup") & “/My Folder" into tURL
>>>>
>>>> [which yields tURL: /Library/Application Support/My Folder ]
>>>>
>>>> create folder tURL
>>>>
>>>> returns a result: can't create that directory
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why the error?
>>
>
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