Force style of Application.persistantDataPath on Mac

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Hi,

like probably most of you, I use Application.persistantDataPath for retrieving the file path my game saves its savegames to.
Now, I don't know why, but on Mac my savegames are written to the Library in the following manner: '~/Library/Application Support/unity.company-name.product-name/' . Unfortunately, this is a problem, since my client (a big publisher) requires me to save in the following location: '~/Library/Application Support/company name/product name' .

This shouldn't be a big deal, for the documentation on Application.persistantDataPath says: "In recent Unity releases user data is written into ~/Library/Application Support/company name/product name. Older versions of Unity wrote into the ~/Library/Caches folder, or ~/Library/Application Support/unity.company name.product name."

So, presumably - since I'm using a recent release of Unity [5.4.3f1] - Unity already should save into the desired location, but unfortunately it still saves into this weird unity.company-name.product-name/ folder, even on Macs that run my game for the very first time.

Do you know of any way to force my game to save its savegames into the folder ''~/Library/Application Support/company name/product name'' ?

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Answer by UnityCoach · Dec 13, 2016 at 08:49 PM

Well, you may always retrieve the path using Application.persistantDataPath, then trim it and rebuild the path you want.

         if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.OSXPlayer) // check your on running a Mac build
         {
             if (float.Parse(Application.version) <= 6.7f) // check if older version of Unity
             {
                 string path  = Application.persistentDataPath;
                 Debug.Log(path);
                 char[] charsToTrim = {'/'};
             string [] splittedPath = path.Split (charsToTrim);
             path = "";
             for (int i = 0 ; i < splittedPath.Length-1 ; i++)
                 path += splittedPath[i] + "/";
             path += "CompanyName/Product Name";
                 Debug.Log(path);
             }
         }

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Reign_of_Light · Dec 14, 2016 at 06:39 AM 0

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Wow, I really didn't think of that. Great answer and great piece of Code!!

Reign_of_Light · Dec 14, 2016 at 08:13 PM 0

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Okay, in the end it didn't work out. Using the custom path, I first got the error "IsolatedStorageException: Could not find a part of the path." . I managed to solve it by first checking and creating the custom directory using Directory.CreateDirectory(path). But, unfortunately, now I'm getting the error "UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to path ... is denied".

As it seems, one cannot save outside Application.persistentDataPath :( .

UnityCoach Reign_of_Light · Dec 15, 2016 at 09:55 AM 0

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Yeah, I forgot to mention it, but I'm afraid you can't just do what you want in the ~/Library folder. You can save to User folder, like Documents or desktop, but ~/Library is a touchy one. This is probably something you want to change in Xcode, but Unity builds the app bundle for you. There's some interesting stuff here on publishing apps to mac app store, that may help you.

Reign_of_Light UnityCoach · Dec 15, 2016 at 12:07 PM 0

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Greeeeeeeeaaaat!! I don't know yet if your link will help me solve that specific problem with saving (I will try!), but beside that it seems to contain a solution for another head-ache-inducing problem (or perhaps even for multiple problems) I had with the mac version. Thank you so much for pointing me to this manual-page!! Why didn't I look into the manual sooner..

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