Mac OS permissions - how and where to write plugin support files?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 627 posts since 30 Aug, 2012
It seems everything I try to do on Mojave requires me to enter my user password - creating a folder, file, etc.
So how do plugin installers manage to create folders and files when there is so much OS restriction?
For example a simple license file - where can you save it and how do get “permission” to save it there?
So how do plugin installers manage to create folders and files when there is so much OS restriction?
For example a simple license file - where can you save it and how do get “permission” to save it there?
- KVRist
- 160 posts since 26 Sep, 2001 from Paris, France
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/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/<your_app>
Lorcan | lmdsp audio plug-ins
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 627 posts since 30 Aug, 2012
Thank you - will give that a try.lorcan wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:08 pmdoesn't need special permissions.Code: Select all
/Users/<user>/Library/Application Support/<your_app>
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- KVRAF
- 4507 posts since 25 Mar, 2016 from Seattle
I’ve got weird permissions stuff (I think..) going on with Arturia products. The ASC software just will not download and install anything, I get “download error” but for some reason will download and install Mellotron but everything else fails...
Anyone else had this issue?
Anyone else had this issue?
- KVRAF
- 2245 posts since 25 Sep, 2014 from Specific Northwest
If it's stuff the user never really needs to get at, saving to the Resource folder in the plugin bundle works.
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better?
- u-he
- 28065 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
- KVRAF
- 2245 posts since 25 Sep, 2014 from Specific Northwest
Oh, absolutely. I currently keep all my patch data there, as well as globals. It's not the end of the world for me to make my end-users manually copy stuff out to rescue it before manually upgrading. Many plugin makers do that anyway with patches living in a dozen or so other locations.
I'm waiting for the post-Catalina shakeup to finally complete with iOS/macOS singularity convergence. There's just too much fuzziness in the "middleware" area right now. What I'd love to see is /Library go away. We can have just System space and Users space. All applications and support go into /Users/Shared or ~ and all OS related (drivers) go into /System.
Once that's done, there should be only two locations instead of /Library or /Library/Application Support or /Library/Audio... Or the local ~ versions of those, or ~/Documents... Or /Users/Shared... It's a real mess and for now, I'm keeping my data close until these boundaries become more clearly defined before finding a more suitable location.
I started on Logic 5 with a PowerBook G4 550Mhz. I now have a MacBook Air M1 and it's ~165x faster! So, why is my music not proportionally better?