Scripting - Can't create directory on Mac

[Davide Boscolo]

Hi,

I'm working on an extension which works fine on Windows but has one little problem on Mac.

I'm not able to create the directory 'MY FOLDER'. Here is the code:

var myResourcesFolderPath = Folder.appData.toString() + encodeURI("/MYFOLDER/");
var myResourcesFolder = Folder(myResourcesFolderPath);

if (!myResourcesFolder.exists && !myResourcesFolder.create()){
alert("Cannot create folder");
return null;}

I can't understand what the problem is!

If I either change the code to

var myResourcesFolderPath = Folder.appData.toString() + encodeURI("/TESTFOLDER/MYFOLDER/");
var myResourcesFolder = Folder(myResourcesFolderPath);

if (!myResourcesFolder.exists && !myResourcesFolder.create()){
alert("Cannot create folder");
return null;}

 and manually create the folder 'TESTFOLDER', then the folder 'MYFOLDER' is created. What the heck?

Any ideas?

[Mylenium]

Well, there is that annoying thing called user permissions even on Mac. It's actually logical - only manualyl creating a folder gives you correct write permissions for the script, which in turn means that your root permissions on the volume or parent original parent folder are restricted somehow. Check this stuff.

Mylenium

[Davide Boscolo]

Yes I thought it was something related to user permissions.

I've changed

Folder.appData

to 

Folder.userData

and it now seems to work fine. 

Thanks!