Where to write application data

[Devin Asay]

Hi folks,

I know this discussion pops up here from time to time, but I can't find what I remember seeing. I checked Nabble, but no luck.

For desktop applications, where can our applications legally write to for the three main OS's? I'm not talking about sandboxing for Mac App Store apps, just the normal place for writing application files.

For Mac OS X I assume: /Users/myuser/Library/Application Support.

For Windows XP/Vista/7: Something like C:/Documents and Settings/myuser/My Documents

For Linux: No idea!

Are any of these derivable from specialFolderPath()? I checked Ken Ray's site (http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/file010.htm) but don't find exactly what I'm looking for there, plus I'm not sure it's 100% up to date.

Any tips?

Thanks,

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University