LC application running on lab computers

[Peter Bogdanoff]

I see that error 13 is a permissions issue.

I’m looking at this page "How to enable the root user on your Mac or change your root password”
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012

which I haven’t yet figured out…

So, I suppose, lab admins would have to enable root user to install my application?

Peter

> On Mar 27, 2019, at 11:45 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I get "can't create that directory (13)”
> 
> The challenge is to write a pref file to a non-user directory so the file is available to all users in a lab setting.
> 
> Peter
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> All file I/O is best accompanied with an error check. If that includes a call to sysError you'll see exactly what the OS is trying to tell you.
>> 
>>  create folder tURL
>>  if the result is not empty then
>>      answer the result &" ("& sysError() &")"
>>      exit to top
>>   end if
>> 
>> 
>> I'd wager permissions. /Library is a system folder. /Users/<username>/Library should be writable, though.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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