Thank you for sharing.
That’s a very useful snippet to save for the future.
Paul
> On Jul 10, 2023, at 1:11 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> After innumerable tests and failures I've figured out how to read/write to
> the Application Support folder on newer versions of MacOS X. Manually setting
> permissions in System Settings didn't work for my tester, and Ventura never
> did ask him to allow file access, so he was stuck.
>
> In case anyone else needs to do this, here is what worked for distribution
> outside the Mac App Store.
>
> 1. The app must be signed and notarized. I thank Matthias every day for his
> mrSignNotarizeHelper. The app does not need to be sandboxed.
>
> 2. Apps can automatically read from and write to their own container. My
> problem was not knowing where the container was.
>
> 3. The path to the container is in ~/Library/Containers/<your app bundle id>/
>
> We don't have a specialFolderPath for that, so here's how I did it:
>
> put specialFolderPath("support") into tContainer
> set the itemdel to slash
> put "Containers/your.bundle.id/" into last item of tContainer
> if there is no folder tContainer then
> create folder tContainer
> if the result <> empty then log "Create container:" && the result
> end if
> put tContainer & "yourFileName.ext" into tPath
>
> This appears to work on any version of MacOS X so far, though I haven't yet
> heard from a tester on Mojave.
>
> Note: in the past I could just write a file into the Preferences or the App
> Support folder and it worked. Now I can't. You need the app container.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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