Hiya,
Is this an app for a single workstation? If not, you could create a
shortcut/symlink to a location on a server and use that as a default for
the app.
If it's for a single workstation (with many users): I heard that in
Vista it will change from the current W2K/WXP setup.
Other than that you could create this folder on the logged in users'
default save location when the app starts up: Each user that uses the
app would then have this folder on the HD in the default save location.
Cheers,
Luis.
Bob Warren wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote:
>I have an app which will be for Mac and Win, and maybe Linux down the
road, in which I need to store some data in a folder which needs to be
writable by all users. Both Mac and Win provide common folders for
reading data: Mac /HD/System Folder/Application Support Win C:/Documents
and Settings/All Users/Application Data ...but in my testing here only
users with admin privileges can write to those folders. :( What is the
OS-recommended place to store common data which can be written by any user?
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Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Linux pendrive solution as
outlined in my "Rev's Portability" thread! That is exactly the kind of
problem I was trying to outline. It's an example of what I meant by
"heavy" use of the file system described in the original post. Of
course, it all depends on whether your app really needs to be run on the
HD or not. If not, then no problem. If so, then I can't help very much,
since "cross platform" apps at this level tend to become either highly
complex or unviable.
Regards,
Bob
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