Well, this directory works differently under vista and 7, and so to catch and force applications to use the special folders API (or the environment variable as Raul pointed out), they introduced the concept that no ordinary user account would have access to this directory. If you check out the mapping of the environment variable %appData%, on my account it maps to: C:\Users\Chip Orange\AppData\Roaming and so you can see it's not just the appData directory that you see. What they seem to have done is divided it into 3 new app dirs, one for those on a network who have roaming profiles, one for items which should not be included in the roaming profile (your local temp files for instance aren't included because it doesn't make sense, but I don't know what they aren't including in this new arrangement), and a third that also aren't included in roaming profiles (files which move from one pc to another as you login at different pcs). hth, Chip
________________________________ From: Don Bowen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Access Denied Windows Seven Hi, I wanted to access the folder c:\users\don\appdata\... but I'm told by my o/s I do not have privilidges. I am an administrator. What else is there to check that will allow me access to my folders, regardless of how dangerous MS may think it would be? Grin. Donald\ If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
