[DUG] Check if allowed to save to a location

[Phil Middlemiss]

It's not as simple as that. This for updating an installed product that 
may have been installed by a user with admin privileges but being used 
and updated by a user.

Nevertheless, I have found a lovely bit of code at this link here:

http://www.delphipraxis.net/post625364.html

but the forum is dutch so I'm not even sure what the name of the person 
who posted it is!

Phil.

Jeremy North wrote:
> Try it and trap the exception.
> Really you should be writing all information to the users profile
> directory anyway. Unless you have to support OS versions that don't
> support it but you can test for those versions before hand anyway.
>
> On 2/1/07, Phil Middlemiss <phil at tumonz.co.nz> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> What is the correct way to determine if my application is allowed to
>> write to a particular directory? That is, there are two locations I want
>> to create a file - one is the install directory, which the user may not
>> have write privileges to, and the other is in their Documents and
>> Settings which is the second choice of where to save it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Phil.
>>
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