Common writable folders

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Wed Jan 17 11:09:10 EST 2007


Hiya,

Is this an app for a single workstation? If not, you could create a 
shortcut/symlink to a location on a server and use that as a default for 
the app.
If it's for a single workstation (with many users): I heard that in 
Vista it will change from the current W2K/WXP setup.

Other than that you could create this folder on the logged in users' 
default save location when the app starts up: Each user that uses the 
app would then have this folder on the HD in the default save location.

Cheers,

Luis.


Bob Warren wrote:
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
> 
>  >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?
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Linux pendrive solution as 
> outlined in my "Rev's Portability" thread! That is exactly the kind of 
> problem I was trying to outline. It's an example of what I meant by 
> "heavy" use of the file system described in the original post. Of 
> course, it all depends on whether your app really needs to be run on the 
> HD or not. If not, then no problem. If so, then I can't help very much, 
> since "cross platform" apps at this level tend to become either highly 
> complex or unviable.
> 
> Regards,
> Bob
> 
> 
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