> Thanks Chris, very helpful report.  I can see the same support storm
coming.
>
> Do you issue a call to VFSRegisterDefaultDirectory to tell the
> filesystem what your private directory is?  Or do you just document
> it?

As I understand it, VFSRegisterDefaultDirectory only works on with MIME
types or file extensions. As we distribute in .pdb format (again just so
those w/o VFS don't have any issues) all we do is document in the readme
file that the databases can be moved to either directory. Since we made the
change to support the default directory, I haven't had one support issue on
it.

The downside aside from disoranization is also potentially speed. We have to
query all the DBs that someone might have lumped in the directory and find
the appropriate ones that we care about. So if someone had say 100 .pdb
files in that directory we might have problems...




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