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?
I had exactly the same problem with a currently-shipping app. I'm
writing app-specific data to the two folders you mention above. The only
way we could work around it was to wrap our app in an OS-approved
installer and have the installer set the permissions for our application
support folder to allow access by everyone. The app support/app data
folders don't need their permissions reset; only your own
standalone-specific folder has to be set. For Mac OS X, we used Apple's
package installer. On Windows, most any installer will do this for you.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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