Common writable folders

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Jan 17 02:28:00 EST 2007


I have an app which will be for Mac and Win, and maybe Linux down the 
road, in which I need to store some data in a folder which needs to be 
writable by all users.

Both Mac and Win provide common folders for reading data:

   Mac  /HD/System Folder/Application Support
   Win  C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data

...but in my testing here only users with admin privileges can write to 
those folders. :(

What is the OS-recommended place to store common data which can be 
written by any user?

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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