J. Landman Gay 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?
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.
Thanks for the input, Jacque.
But now I wonder: Is there a way to do this from within a custom
Rev-based installer? How does one trigger the OS X authentication dialog?
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