Lion problem report and fix

Shao Sean shaosean at wehostmacs.com
Thu Jul 21 20:50:58 EDT 2011


> On the topic of "where do we put stuff (needed support files) in OS  
> X", I remember Ken Ray had a great article on this… we decided on / 
> Library/Application Support/, it has been working great until  
> yesterday :-)

Best to just use the user's application support folder.. If I remember  
correctly, Apple will deny your Mac App from the store if you try to  
write to the system application support folder..

> We are now changing on OS X so that support files will be downloaded  
> and housed inside the Mac application package in the Applications  
> directory.)

Always a bad idea, and this will cause your app to get denied from the  
app store for sure..

While it is true that the majority of users are running as an admin  
account on their own single-user machine and you can get around the  
limitations imposed by Apple by running sudo commands, think about a  
corporate/educational/shared environment where your attempt to run  
sudo will fail, the elevated privs through AppleScript will fail (and  
even Rev's new elevated privs feature will fail).. By coding according  
to the rules laid out you can save yourself headaches in the future..



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