Re: Preferences.systemRoot not persisting on Lion

Subject: Re: Preferences.systemRoot not persisting on Lion
From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:36:29 -0700
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Jamison Hope wrote:

Perhaps the system preferences node could move from /Library/ Preferences to /Library/Java (as suggested by Steve Wilson) and still be as writable as before?

And there's a way to make this configurable: allow a path in a system property. The default would be "/Library/Preferences", the new one would be "/Library/Java/Preferences:/Library/Preferences", and if something changes again, developers can predefine yet another path that meets their needs for keeping their program working. For example, an app-specific dir in a common location like Application Support.

In the path, the first-named directory is where all writing occurs. Any other dirs are treated as read-only, regardless of whether any file-system permissions allows writing.

  -- GG

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