Re: Trying to delete a Mac application

2018-01-05 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
OS X locked down the Application folder a while back. I haven't changed the permissions so it still asks for authorization when I try to remove an app. This will vary by user. But also, when you delete an app, you are the user that may have permission, but when the app does it, I don't think you

Re: Trying to delete a Mac application

2018-01-05 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Graham, > Am 05.01.2018 um 21:23 schrieb Graham Samuel via use-livecode > : > > Thanks to Klaus and Ken, I know how to address the Mac Applications folder. > But when I try to delete an app (which I take to be a folder of the form > xxx.app) by script, I get a result “can’t delete that file

Trying to delete a Mac application

2018-01-05 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Thanks to Klaus and Ken, I know how to address the Mac Applications folder. But when I try to delete an app (which I take to be a folder of the form xxx.app) by script, I get a result “can’t delete that file”. But as a user -admittedly with admin privileges - I can move any app into the trash.