file-permissions

My application uses the .NET object Directory.GetFiles() The actual overload I'm using is var allFiles = Directory.GetFiles("C:\\Users\\Dave", "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories); The issue is when the source folder is C:\Users\UserName as it then tries to look through application data folder. When it tries to read from the application data folder, an exception is thrown: "Access to the path 'C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Local\Application Data' is denied." So, my question is does any one have an opinion as to my options? I would assume I have to either change the way I collect all the files or, there

Currently I use something like: #include <sys/stat.h> #include "My_Class.h" void My_Class::my_function(void) { std::ofstream my_file; struct stat file_info; if ( filename_str.compare("")!=0 && stat(filename_str.c_str(),&file_info) == 0 ) { my_file.open(filename_str.data(),std::ios::trunc); //do stuff my_file.close(); } else if ( filename_str.compare("")==0 ) { std::cout << "ERROR! ... output filename not assigned!" << std::endl; } else { std::cout << "ERROR! File :" << std::endl << filename_str << std::endl << "does not exist!!" << std::endl; } } ...is this a decent way to go, or is there a

I'm creating directories using myFileObject.mkdirs() . In Windows, every directory that gets created is marked as read-only. Although I can (oddly) still write to the directory, it creates aggravation when it comes to deleting things. Is there some system property or something I can set so that the default permission on new directories is read-write? (I've searched on SO and the web and haven't found anything besides other people complaining about the same thing.) It's a pain to have to call setWritable for a directory tree. (If it makes a difference, I'm using J2SE 1.6.0_23 on Windows 7.) As

I want to write output from the TextToSpeech engine to my app's cache directory. In order to for the TTS to write there I first have to give it permissions to do so. But I don't know how. I understand that normally such problems can be solved by handing a FileDescriptor over thus giving permissions to access a specific file. But I can't do that with TTS, as the TextToSpeech.synthesizeToFile method only accepts the file path as a String, no FileDescriptor . So what to do? To make my point that TTS really hasn't permissions to write to my app's directories, here's the code...: TextToSpeech mTts