Hi Victor, I understand where you're coming from now after I did some research & found the many different uses for .INI files, & that they are just text files like so many other file extensions used for program / computer communication. Take care. Mike Sent from my, iBarstool. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scorpio To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts
Hi Mike, I'm afraid you're getting bogged by that one line. If you take away that one line, what are you left with? You're original question was if there is a central place to place *.ini files, and if so, will the programs know to look for them there. My answer to that was that *.ini files do not belong in one central place, as they are placed all over your computer. For example, you'll find *.ini files inside the Windows folder, the C-Cleaner folder, to use your example, and various other folder, depending on your computer's make up. You cannot move a *.ini file from it's centralized program location and expect the program to find it. I honestly do not know what happens when you move a program's *.ini file. In the case of Jaws, just to use an example, when you delete the default.ini file from your Jaws settings folder, Jaws simply re-creates that file using Jaws default settings, which means once that file is deleted, you have to re-configure to your tastes. Can I say with any definitive sureness that other programs do the same, no, but I can that that each program on your computer contains, at least, one *.ini file. Hopefully, that explains my explanation. Smiles. Scorpio -----Original Message----- From: Mike B. Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 11:56 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Hi Scorpio, Okay, this is what you said, "they don't actually belong in any one place on your computer." So, if they don't belong any place in particular, what am I missing? I'm under the impression that if a particular program, as i suggested with CCleaner, needs the particular .INI file, that .INI file should reside in that particular program's folder whether that program is in Program Files or Program Files X86 on the root of the operating system drive. As I stated earlier, I'm not trying to argue with anyone but, it sounds like a .INI file serves more than 1 purpose depending on what that purpose might be. Is this a fair assumption? Thanks much. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Go Dodgers! Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scorpio To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Hi Mike, I think you misunderstood my message. The initialization file does not belong in any one spot, in other words, you can not put it anywhere and the program will find it, so, to use your example, if you were to put the initialization file for C-Cleaner in your documents folder, I honestly don't know what would happen to C-Cleaner when you tried to launch it. I do know, however, that the C-Cleaner program will coded to look for the initialization file within the C-Cleaner folder. Not sure if that's in the Program files, Application Data, or somewhere else on your C drive, but yes, each program is coded/written to look for specific files it uses in it's own directory, and not, for example in your documents folder. Hope that makes what I said clearer. Scorpio -----Original Message----- From: Mike B. Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:14 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Okay, being the INI file holds the settings for a program, that's why I assumed it was supposed to go in the program's folder on the root of the C drive, or whatever the letter designation would be for the operating system. So, let's use CCleaner as an example. If I put the CCleaner.INI file in my Documents folder, would CCleaner still be able to access the settings, since an .INI file doesn't belong anywhere specific? I ask this because, using CCleaner again as an example, if I change the settings in CCleaner on 1 computer, & want our other computers to use the same CCleaner settings I copy the .INI file from the 1 computer & paste it into the CCleaner folder on the other cleaners. So, from what you're saying that .INI file can go anywhere instead of the CClener folder? Please, I'm not challenging you, but just trying to get .INI files straight in my head. Thanks much. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Go Dodgers! Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scorpio To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 5:54 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts ini files are application specific, and they don't actually belong in any one place on your computer. They serve as initialization file for the application so it know what to bring up when it starts, and it also has your license information, if any, as well as settings and other technical stuff like that embedded in it. Scorpio -----Original Message----- From: David Ferrin Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 6:32 AM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Nobody ever asked me that question before, so it is nothing that crossed my mind. I just opened it up and gave it a read and checked the gold wave folder which BTW does not have any INI files at least not on my system. Now the text file can be moved to wherever your heart is content as it serves no purpose in the ENU folder. Thos are the facts at 6:31 A. M. -----Original Message----- From: Mike B. Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 5:54 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Hi David, Are you saying that the,.INI, file goes into the ENU folder as well?! I'm not questioning your knowledge, it's just that I've always been told that, INI, files were settings files & go into the programs folder. Thanks much. Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ferrin To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scripts Paste all the files in the zip archive in to the ENU folder and take a coffee break. That's it in a nutshell. -----Original Message----- From: Mike B. Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 3:39 PM To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scrips Hi Kimsan, I don't have Goldwave installed, but in looking at the contents of the scripts folder it looks like the first entry in the folder is a, .INI, file. If I'm not mistaken the, .INI, file would go into the Goldwave folder that's either in the Program Files or Program Files X86 folders on the root of the C drive. Then, at the bottom is a TXT file that contains keystrokes. So, all the rest of the files would go into the ENU folder of your particular version of Jaws. If I'm wrong, would someone please jump in & correct me?! Take care. Mike Sent from my iBarstool. Early to bed, early to rise, keep my iHemorrhoids from being a surprise. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kimsan To: jaws-users-list@jaws-users.com Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 11:53 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] gold wave scrips Hi, I downloaded the goldwave scrips from the jaws-users.com scrips page. How do I install them? Do I just paste them into the enu folder for the jaws version I'd like to use? 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