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Re: Windows ProgramData directory [message #59254 is a reply to message #59250]

Mon, 05 December 2022 11:15

Tom1
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Registered: March 2007

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Hi,

I wish I (or someone else) could. I tried to search for anything suitable on the web without result.

How would you solve this 'ProgramData' for Linux? I.e. a path on local computer where all users can create/read/write/delete files like on a network share with sufficient privileges.

Should I just: 'sudo mkdir /var/programdata && sudo chmod 777 /var/programdata' and point to this directory within my programs?

(My programs use some files that may be updated by the programs themselves running at user level privileges. All users on the local computer and many of my programs use and update the same files, so there is no point keeping multiple copies on the disk for each program and/or each user. Windows ProgramData is just the right thing for this.)

Best regards,

Tom

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