In attempting to create this folder in MacOS:
put specialFolderpath("asup") & “/My Folder" into tURL
[which yields tURL: /Library/Application Support/My Folder ]
create folder tURL
returns a result: can't create that directory
Why the error?
Peter
ArtsInteractive
> On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks all! I’ll check these out.
>
> Peter
>
>
>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> These are the public ones on Win 10:
>>
>> 25 C:/Users/Public/Desktop
>> 46 C:/Users/Public/Documents
>> 53 C:/Users/Public/Music
>> 54 C:/Users/Public/Pictures
>> 55 C:/Users/Public/Videos
>>
>> Used this in the message box:
>>
>> put empty into msg;repeat with i = 1 to 100;if specialFolderPath(i) contains
>> "public" then put i&&specialFolderPath(i) &cr after msg;end repeat
>>
>> Ralph DiMola
>> IT Director
>> Evergreen Information Services
>> [email protected]
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-livecode [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>> Of Klaus major-k via use-livecode
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:04 PM
>> To: How to use LiveCode
>> Cc: Klaus major-k
>> Subject: Re: LC application running on lab computers
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>>> Am 27.03.2019 um 21:59 schrieb Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My application is being installed on Windows machines in a school lab. The
>>> admin is having trouble because I’m writing preference files to the
>>> Users\<user>\ folder and when another user logs in, the file is not
>>> available. This may be a problem in the future for Macs as well. These same
>>> preference files should be accessed by all users.
>>>
>>> The specialFolderPath functions don’t seem to have one for a root level
>>> Library/Preferences folder. Is there otherwise a best, or even workable
>>> practice for this scenario?
>>
>> you could use these 2 undocumented specialfolderpath() codes for Windows:
>> -> specialFolderPath(35) -> prefs folder for ALL users
>> -> specialfolderpath(26) -> dito for the current user only!
>>
>> Not sure this is still working on Win 10, but worth a try. :-) Check this in
>> the IDE with the messagebox:
>> put specialFolderPath(35)
>>
>>> Peter Bogdanoff
>>> ArtsInteractive
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>> --
>> Klaus Major
>> http://www.major-k.de
>> [email protected]
>>
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