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[Richard Gaskin]

Shari wrote:

>> The OS vendors recommend writing data into designated user folders.
>> Fortunately the locations of these can be obtained easily with MC's
>> specialFolderPath function, and if you're not writing your own installer
>> most installer packages make putting files into these directories easy.
>> 
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
> 
> What would be considered a designated user folder?

I use:

  specialFolderPath("Preferences")&"/MyAppName/"

...on OS X, which puts it in users/<username>/Libraries/Preferences/

On XP I use:

  specialFolderPath("Documents")&"/MyAppName/"

...which puts it into <drive>/Documents and Settings/My Documents/


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