How about specialFolderPath("temporary") ?
Terry...
On 28/3/19, 5:46 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Bogdanoff via
use-livecode" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
I get "can't create that directory (13)”
The challenge is to write a pref file to a non-user directory so the file
is available to all users in a lab setting.
Peter
> On Mar 27, 2019, at 11:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> All file I/O is best accompanied with an error check. If that includes a
call to sysError you'll see exactly what the OS is trying to tell you.
>
> create folder tURL
> if the result is not empty then
> answer the result &" ("& sysError() &")"
> exit to top
> end if
>
>
> I'd wager permissions. /Library is a system folder.
/Users/<username>/Library should be writable, though.
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
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