Lion problem report and fix

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Josh,

That's seems normal, since /Library isn't a user folder. Are you sure this is Lion-specific? Have you tried ~/Library/Application Support?

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On 21 jul 2011, at 23:38, Josh Mellicker wrote:

> 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!