Re: Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-10 Thread Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech
Jim: You are right about the tilde in the path name. After I sent the E-Mail and noticed it. What I wrote on startup is that if these directories are not there I create them, and use chmod to change the permissions to 666. Then I do the same for my three types of log files when I first create t

Re: Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-10 Thread Jim Crate via 4D_Tech
On Oct 9, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote: > > I love writing logs to the local computer while it is running. These log > files are for the programmers to know what is occurring on the computer. > Typically these logs are turned off when there are no problem

Re: Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-10 Thread Arnaud de Montard via 4D_Tech
> Le 9 oct. 2018 à 17:50, Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> a écrit > : > > [...] > 1. Is this the right location I should be saving this kind of information? Unless it represents a huge amout of data / traffic, I think I'd choose to write this on server side. -- Arnaud de Monta

Re: Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-09 Thread Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech
Chip: Ya, I saw my phone number there as I clicked send… I will try the 4D Folder and see how that works out. Thanks Jody > On Oct 9, 2018, at 10:29 AM, Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > I believe that Get 4D Folder works for this sort of thing > > I would think

Re: Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-09 Thread Chip Scheide via 4D_Tech
I believe that Get 4D Folder works for this sort of thing I would think either: 4D folder, or Log folder Chip On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 09:50:48 -0600, Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech wrote: > In my previous 26+ years of 4D coding I did not have to concern > myself with the same computer being used by diff

Where is best place to save data outside data file

2018-10-09 Thread Jody Bevan via 4D_Tech
In my previous 26+ years of 4D coding I did not have to concern myself with the same computer being used by different computer users (By this, I mean the user signed into the computer). Part of that was that long ago, people just didn’t sign out of the computer, and then the next person sign in