LC application running on lab computers

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 06:14:09 EDT 2019


I don't know much about Windows . . . but,

on Macintosh machines and PCs running Linux there is often a folder called
"Shared" or somesuch alongside all the user directories: might this not
be the place to write a pref file that is going to be shared by all users?

Richmond.

On 28.03.19 г. 8:45 ч., Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
> 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
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