special folders

[J. Landman Gay]

Ken Ray wrote:

> There are a lot more examples, but you get the idea. So to develop for 
> the widest possible distribution, you want to accommodate users of all 
> levels, so the guidelines say that you should:
> 
> - Put the executable file in the Applications/Program Files/etc. folder
> - Put files that the application uses, that usually won't be modified 
> or need to be accessed by multiple users, and likely should not be seen 
> (or not seen very often) by end users in an Application 
> Support/Application Data/etc. folder
> - Put files that *do* change, are user-specific, or hold user-generated 
> data in the user's Documents/My Documents folder

Where would you put a file that the app itself needs to update, 
regardless of which user is running it? I've been putting that file into 
an "all users/application data/myapp/" folder but if there are 
permissions problems with that, what then?

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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