LC application running on lab computers

[Peter Bogdanoff]

In attempting to create this folder in MacOS:

put specialFolderpath("asup") & “/My Folder" into tURL

     [which yields tURL: /Library/Application Support/My Folder ]

create folder tURL

     returns a result: can't create that directory


Why the error? 

Peter
ArtsInteractive


> On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks all! I’ll check these out.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> These are the public ones on Win 10:
>> 
>> 25 C:/Users/Public/Desktop
>> 46 C:/Users/Public/Documents
>> 53 C:/Users/Public/Music
>> 54 C:/Users/Public/Pictures
>> 55 C:/Users/Public/Videos
>> 
>> Used this in the message box:
>> 
>> put empty into msg;repeat with i = 1 to 100;if specialFolderPath(i) contains "public" then put i&&specialFolderPath(i) &cr after msg;end repeat
>> 
>> Ralph DiMola
>> IT Director
>> Evergreen Information Services
>> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Klaus major-k via use-livecode
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:04 PM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Cc: Klaus major-k
>> Subject: Re: LC application running on lab computers
>> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>>> Am 27.03.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> My application is being installed on Windows machines in a school lab. The admin is having trouble because I’m writing preference files to the Users\<user>\ folder and when another user logs in, the file is not available. This may be a problem in the future for Macs as well. These same preference files should be accessed by all users.
>>> 
>>> The specialFolderPath functions don’t seem to have one for a root level Library/Preferences folder. Is there otherwise a best, or even workable practice for this scenario?
>> 
>> you could use these 2 undocumented specialfolderpath() codes for Windows:
>> -> specialFolderPath(35) -> prefs folder for ALL users
>> -> specialfolderpath(26) -> dito for the current user only!
>> 
>> Not sure this is still working on Win 10, but worth a try. :-) Check this in the IDE with the messagebox:
>> put specialFolderPath(35)
>> 
>>> Peter Bogdanoff
>>> ArtsInteractive
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Klaus
>> 
>> --
>> Klaus Major
>> http://www.major-k.de
>> klaus at major-k.de
>> 
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