Lion problem report and fix

[Josh Mellicker]

Just wanted to let everyone know, Lion permissions default to not allowing Livecode to create folders in "/Library/Application Support/" with the "create folder" command.

Here's how we got around it:

First, this

   put "mkdir" && quote & "/Library/Application Support/theNewFolderWeNeed2create" & quote into tCmd
   get shell (tCmd)
   put it

returns "Permission denied".


But this:

   put "sudo mkdir -p" && quote & "/Library/Application Support/theNewFolderWeNeed2create" & quote into tCmd
   get shell (tCmd)
   
creates the folder, and oddly, does not prompt for the password, at least in the IDE (haven't tried with a standalone yet).

Then, this:

   put "sudo chmod -Rfv 777" && quote & "/Library/Application Support/theNewFolderWeNeed2create" & quote into tCmd
   get shell (tCmd)

makes it so that folders and items can be freely created in the new folder by Livecode on Lion. So everything is back to normal a la the Leopards.


Hope this helps someone out.


And, if anyone has a better way, please post!