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-hh, Thank you for taking the time to reply, and for the demo and source code! Clearly this demonstrates that this is doable. Anyone with more programming experience would be off and running, given your help in supplying the missing link. But I am afraid I can't quite do that. Much of what you doing...

I have a stack that looks for two directories, one containing images for display, and the other a set of text files in array format. In my source, I have no problem accessing the external data: put the filename of me into t .... put t&"Images/"into gImagePath put t&"Array Files/"into gTextPath The a...

Klaus, Bingo! The problem was indeed my pointing to the resources path, which also further explains the odd behavior of it working fine prior to packing it up, but never again afterwards. Lesson learned. I ditched the default Folder setting I was doing and went with this: put specialFolderPath("docu...

Richard,

I was having the same problem trying to find error 17. These are the two paths I am trying to write to:

/Users/bmr1/Desktop/LiveCode Jeopardy Engine/Files to Verify
/Users/bmr1/Desktop/LiveCode Jeopardy Engine/Array Files

Bill

OK, I did get a "can't create that directory (17)" error message back when attempting to create my folder: global gMyFilePath1 on mouseUp set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("resources") put defaultFolder & "/" & "Files to Verify" into gMyFilePath1 create folder gMyFilePath1 if the result is ...

Hello all...my first post to a LiveCode forum. I have developed a little app that reads in one big text file, replaces unwanted text and formatting, and then writes out a set of smaller, cleaner text files. It works perfectly in source, merrily reading and writing files to its heart's content. :D Ye...