Where to store read/write files on multi-user systems

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 11:31 AM, paolo wrote:

> Referring to MAC OS X I think this is fine:
>>
>> Mac OS X
>> * User specific preference files (4)- 
>> /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/MYAPP
>> specialFolderPath("pref")
>> * Shared files writable by everyone (2 and 3)- /Users/Shared/MYAPP
>> specialFolderPath("sdat")
>>
>>
>
> However, you have to set permission accordingly.  As far as I know 
> there is not a way to set permissions from Revolution when you create 
> a file....  (right?) .. so you can have  problems to read/write files 
> created by an other user.

You can use the shell command to change the permissions.  I think you 
would want to chmod 666 the file to make it read/writable by everyone.

-- 
Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com