Any user has write permissions to the users/<username>/library folder. No one,
even administrators has write permissions to the /library folder. You would
need to elevate the process somehow. That has come up before, and I am not sure
what came of it. There is a shared folder that all users have write access to,
but this is not the typical place to put prefs files.
Bob S
> On Mar 27, 2019, at 23:45 , Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> 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?
>
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