LC application running on lab computers

[Peter Bogdanoff]

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
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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