A poor man's app updater

[Peter Bogdanoff]

So, to store and access LC stacks and other files used by myApp that must be periodically updated, does it make sense to put them into

macOS—Library/Application Support/myApp
Win—user/AppData/myApp

rather than in Applications or Program Files?

Are there any restrictions or downside to this?

Peter

> On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:14 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8/3/2018 2:32 AM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> To raise the issue again of updating Mac and Windows apps, I’m referencing this thread between Graham and Jacqueline...
>> 
>> Can existing files in the user’s application directory be saved/modified/replaced by my application?
>> 
> 
> The accurate answer is that it all depends upon the permissions of the
> account running the software. Typically for most personal or home
> computers, the user has administrative privs, but that is increasingly
> not the case on university or company owned computers. On these, they
> may not have permission to alter files in the Program Files (Win) or
> Applications (OSX) folders.
> 
> In some cases, again depending on OS and permissions, you can alter the
> folders contents directly. In others you application must launch a
> process (another app) with elevated privs, where the OS asks the user
> for permissions for the elevated privs, and then that app (if allowed)
> can make changes.
> 
> 
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