On 6 Feb 2006, at 21:54, Marielle Lange wrote:
Using pathToUsersDocumentsFolder would therefore be a better
approach, but I don't really want to create a file within this
folder as the file is in a completely adhoc format that would
puzzle anybody who come across it.
It's not uncommon to see folder and files created by various
applications in the OS X Documents folder (specialFolderPath
("docs")). In mine I see the following folders:
Acrobat User Data
Adobe Reader
AppleWorks User Data
Eudora Folder
Finding Out (children's learning prgram)
Micosoft User Data
ScanWizard 5 Folder
Virtual PC List
And most of the files in these folders are puzzling, to say the least.
On Windows, the user's Application Data folder (specialFolderPath
(26)) is the normal place to put this kind of stuff. Although on a
standard Window's installation, this folder is invisible, and it can
be tricky to direct a user to find the folder if, for example when
things go wrong, you ever need them to delete it, or retrieve a file.
There's also a "Local Settings" version of the Application Data
folder (specialFolderPath(28)) which will always remain with the
local machine and won't get transferred to a user's network roaming
profile. It's typically used for cached data that isn't critical but
may be large.
Has anybody ever tried the User/Library/Application
Support way? Is there any problem associated with this solution?
I don't think there's a direct way to get this path using
specialFolderPath. However, you can use specialFolderPath("asup") to
get the "root level" Application Support folder path (e.g. /Library/
Application Support) and then append this to the $HOME environment
variable.
put $HOME & specialFolderPath("asup") into tAppSupPath
For a full listing of the specialFolderPath codes, see Ken Ray's site:
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file010.htm
Cheers
Dave
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