Apple specifies that apps should store their app-related data in their own
folder inside Application Support, where you will always have permissions.
You can also store prefs in the Preferences folder but it's discouraged in
favor of App Support. LC has specialFolderPath("support") for that which
works for both Mac and Windows. It would match what you suggested.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On August 3, 2018 7:31:18 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
So, to store and access LC stacks and other files used by myApp that must
be periodically updated, does it make sense to put them into
macOS—Library/Application Support/myApp
Win—user/AppData/myApp
rather than in Applications or Program Files?
Are there any restrictions or downside to this?
Peter
On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:14 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
On 8/3/2018 2:32 AM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
Hi,
To raise the issue again of updating Mac and Windows apps, I’m referencing
this thread between Graham and Jacqueline...
Can existing files in the user’s application directory be
saved/modified/replaced by my application?
The accurate answer is that it all depends upon the permissions of the
account running the software. Typically for most personal or home
computers, the user has administrative privs, but that is increasingly
not the case on university or company owned computers. On these, they
may not have permission to alter files in the Program Files (Win) or
Applications (OSX) folders.
In some cases, again depending on OS and permissions, you can alter the
folders contents directly. In others you application must launch a
process (another app) with elevated privs, where the OS asks the user
for permissions for the elevated privs, and then that app (if allowed)
can make changes.
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