Hi Andre,
Am 30.09.2012 um 22:02 schrieb Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com:
This works on the Mac:
specialfolderpath(asup) - ~/Library/Application Support
Klaus,
specialfolderpath(asup) returns the system wide Application Support
folder and not the users Application Support folder. If
This is true, however, other processes can elevate their privileges by
authenticating through a user/password dialog. Installers do this all the time.
What he is really asking for is a way to invoke the authentication dialog built
into the system, and then apply those privileges to his LC app.
IMHO this is just kicking the security can down the road. If all developers are
required to keep their global preferences here, then instead of all the app
preferences being accessible from one now restricted location, they are all
available in another. What has really changed? This is what I
I'm not ready to face the differences in where things go with mac
windows, and dealing with the OS preferences settings.
Is there a way that I can store and change a string in a standalone
stack to find the preferences file, where I can then stuff the rest?
Should this, perhaps, be a custom
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way that I can store and change a string in a standalone
stack to find the preferences file, where I can then stuff the rest?
I think I've answered this diddling around; the executable file can't
be changed (which
Richard,
Check out the specialFolderPath() function. It will give you a location to
write your preferences file.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way that I can store and
On 9/30/12 11:27 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I'm not ready to face the differences in where things go with mac
windows, and dealing with the OS preferences settings.
Is there a way that I can store and change a string in a standalone
stack to find the preferences file, where I can then stuff the
Hi Jaqueline,
Am 30.09.2012 um 21:16 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com:
On 9/30/12 11:27 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I'm not ready to face the differences in where things go with mac
windows, and dealing with the OS preferences settings.
Is there a way that I can store and change
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote:
This works on the Mac:
specialfolderpath(asup) - ~/Library/Application Support
4 chars less to type ;-)
I could have used that two hours ago . . .
But now I see a new headache coming . . . I need both per user *AND*
On 30 Sep 2012, at 20:16, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
There's been some discussion about whether Apple still wants prefs stored in
Preferences in Mountain Lion (odd as that may seem.) To be safe on all
versions of OS X, you may want to use this instead for Macs:
put
Phil Jimmieson wrote:
On 30 Sep 2012, at 20:16, J. Landman Gay wrote:
There's been some discussion about whether Apple still wants
prefs stored in Preferences in Mountain Lion (odd as that may seem.)
To be safe on all versions of OS X, you may want to use this instead
for Macs:
put
A post in the forums a while back suggested that Apple's localization
affects only the display of such folder names, while the actual addressable
folder name remains constant.
I don't have enough experience with Apple's localization to say for sure,
but it would be convenient if someone who
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote:
This works on the Mac:
specialfolderpath(asup) - ~/Library/Application Support
However, running as a user, when trying to create a directory within
it, can't create that directory
Is there a way to trigger the
Folks,
Haven't you seen my email above?
If running as a non-admin user you need to use:
put ~ specialfolderpath(asup) into tPath.
The return value from specialFolderPath(asup) is the system wide support
folder which the normal user can't write to. You need the user folder which
you will get
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
Haven't you seen my email above?
Yes, but . . .
If running as a non-admin user you need to use:
put ~ specialfolderpath(asup) into tPath.
But this puts it in ~.
I'm after getting the system to request an admin
If the assistant has its own user on the machine and that user has no
priviledge outside its home folder than you will not be able to write to a
system wide location no matter what you try.
Unless the person on the keyboard has an administrator level access or
password at hand, then you will not
On 09/30/2012 10:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Unless the person on the keyboard has an administrator level access or
password at hand, then you will not be able to write anywhere outside that
persons folder.Your unpriviledged user can't write to /Library or /System,
only the super user can.
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