Shari wrote:
I have a permissions problem that occurs once in a great while when
people install my standalone on their computer. This doesn't happen often.
I do not use an installer. The program is zipped or stuffed, depending
on the platform. The folks unzip/unstuff it and put it wherever they
want on their computer.
99% of the time, the game folder installs properly. Every so often
however, the folder permissions are set to Read Only, and the game
cannot update its own files, causing problemos. I have no clue as to
why this happens to some folks.
Has anyone else experienced this? And is there a solution? At one time
I had the following set during install, but later took it out:
get shell("chmod 777 " & quote & theDirectory & quote)
theDirectory being the full path to the game folder that they are
installing.
Do I need to put it back in?
Shari
I just had this in a client's stack where data is being saved to the
main system library/application support folder. It works fine when
running as an admin account, but fails when a non-admin user tries to
run the software. The solution is for the admin account to change
permissions on that folder so that non-admin users can access it. (This
is on OS X.) I suppose the shell command would work too, but if a
non-admin is installing to the main applications folder, then you'll
need sudo in there somewhere, I think. Our solution was just to tell the
user to log in as admin and give his other accounts permissions to
access the folder. The situation was rare enough that a manual solution
was acceptable.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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