One other thing I should mention: the location has to be non-obvious as the
files being written are DRM files and although I make them invisible, so all
variants of tmp, etc are out.
Erg
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From: Dave Geering <dlgeer...@gmail.com>
To: Erg Consultant <erg_consult...@yahoo.com>; cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:07:22 PM
Subject: Re: Writable dir for non-admin user outside user's dir
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Erg Consultant <erg_consult...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there any location on the system outside the current user's dir that is
> writable outside the user's domain? I need my app to create some files when
> run under a non-admin acct that I need to persist across boots/logins. But
> every permanent location seems to be locked except for things inside the
> user's folder. I would have thought /Library/Application support would work
> but no.....
/private/var/tmp is supposed to persist across reboots, although I'm
not sure if there's a Cocoa way of obtaining this path or whether it
has to be hard-coded . . .
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