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@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.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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