[Composer] installing to ~/Library

[Noah Leaman]

I tried building it in Temp using /Users/<username>/Library/Preferences but no matter what I put in for <username> is just creates that folder. I need to create an installer that works with <username> being a variable

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Noah 

On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, at 12:40AM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote:
>Hi Noah,
>
>I'm not really sure why it wouldn't be grabbing any files from a user home directory. The only things I can think of are:
>
>
> 1.  Are you certain that files are being installed into a user home directory?
> 2.  If it's actually only modifying an existing file in that directory are you making sure to select 'New and Modified Files' from the options within Composer?
>
>Lastly, if you know the file you are looking for you can create a package of it manually
>
>
> *   Create a folder in the same directory you are running composer from called Temp.
> *   Create a folder in the Temp directory, this folder should be the name of the package you want to create
> *   Create your folder structure in this like Users/<username>/Library/Preferences, where username can be anything, but it's usually easier to be consistent with this name in all of your packages that require user files
> *   Drop the file you want in your preferences folder
> *   Open Composer and go to the Pre-Built tab and check the box for your package and save it
>
>I'm not really sure how the licensing works for the individual products, but I assume you should be able to do this still.
>
>If you know for sure the file(s) are being added or being modified and option 2 doesn't work...I think it would be worth a call to support...of course...they are reading this, too. =)
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Craig Ernst
>Systems Management & Configuration
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>
>On 10/16/07 1:55 PM, "Noah Leaman" <noah at mac.com> wrote:
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>I'm new to Composer and I'm very impressed so far. But I cannot seem to figure out how to get the snapshot to see files that were installed into ~/Library/Preferences.
>
>How is this done? I'm sure I'm missing something.
>
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