Lion problem report and fix

[Marty Knapp]

Interestingly, the user's Library folder, and thus the Application 
Support folder is invisible on my Lion install. I can write to it OK, 
though (only tested as admin).

Marty Knapp
> 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.
>
> I believe that's true with earlier versions as well if the current 
> user is not admin.
>
> Apple recommends using the user's App Support folder, where LC's 
> "create folder" seems to work well:
>
>    Contains all application-specific data and support files. These
>    are the files that your application creates and manages on behalf
>    of the user and can include files that contain user data.
>
>    By convention, all of these items should be put in a subdirectory
>    whose name matches the bundle identifier of the application. For
>    example, if your application is named MyApp and has the bundle
>    identifier com.example.MyApp, you would put your application’s
>    user-specific data files and resources in the ~/Library/Application
>    Support/com.example.MyApp/ directory. Your application is
>    responsible for creating this directory as needed.
>
> <http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGUide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010672-CH10-SW1> 
>
>
> There may be special cases where you'd need to use the system-wide App 
> Support folder, but those should ideally invoke the admin dialog, 
> since any access to system directories without that would pose a 
> security risk.
>
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