LC application running on lab computers

[Terry Judd]

How about specialFolderPath("temporary") ?

Terry...

On 28/3/19, 5:46 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of 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> 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
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