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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