Where to write application data

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Jun 6 09:47:44 EDT 2013


Devin Asay wrote:

 > 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.

FWIW, I was talking about Ken about the list at his site just a couple 
weeks ago while diagnosing an issue on Win7, and it seems the info is 
pretty current.

I use specialFolderPath(26) for Windows, which take you to a writable 
folder in user space on XP through Win7 and even Win8 IIRC.

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