One other thing I should mention: the location has to be non-obvious as the files being written are DRM files and although I make them invisible, so all variants of tmp, etc are out.
Erg ________________________________ From: Dave Geering <[email protected]> To: Erg Consultant <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:07:22 PM Subject: Re: Writable dir for non-admin user outside user's dir On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Erg Consultant <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any location on the system outside the current user's dir that is > writable outside the user's domain? I need my app to create some files when > run under a non-admin acct that I need to persist across boots/logins. But > every permanent location seems to be locked except for things inside the > user's folder. I would have thought /Library/Application support would work > but no..... /private/var/tmp is supposed to persist across reboots, although I'm not sure if there's a Cocoa way of obtaining this path or whether it has to be hard-coded . . . _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
