Saving license files

Scott Stevenson sstevenson at mac.com
Wed Dec 19 21:28:12 PST 2007


On Dec 19, 2007, at 7:25 PM, Chad Armstrong wrote:

> I'm leaning towards saving a license file in /Library/Application  
> Support/MyProduct/.  Can anyone (including Standard users) save to  
> that location, or should there be a back-up method that should just  
> save a copy to their Home ~/Library/Application Support/MyProduct/,  
> just in case?

I believe only admin users can write to /Library. The most correct  
thing is probably to just save in the home directory. If that's  
totally unworkable, you could also use ~Shared, but this should really  
be a last resort. I think it's bad form.

     - Scott


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