The issues relates to special folders such as  "My Music" folder on XP
and "Music" on Vista.

No matter what you do it seems Windows always makes folders "Readonly"
as they are not real folders. I tested on a XP with FAT which has no
user permission capability and only rudimentary attributes and not
matter how I removed the "readonly" attribute - Windows restored it.

The MyPicks code test if the folder is Readonly and so it will abort
before trying to write.

There is the odd fact that playlists can be saved in "My Music"/"Music"
- and on examining the code it seems that if the "Readonly" attribute is
ignored - playlists are written as binary files. MyPicks uses a Perl
library routine which saves OPML files as "text" and I think this may
be problem - Windows somewhow allows binary files to be saved in Music
folders. 

Solution:
The rewrite of Favorites in SC 7.0 makes MyPicks redundant in SC 7.0 
and there is no active development of 6.5.x anymore so I think there is
little point in rewriting MyPicks to write binary opml files to support
these folders.  

The workaround is to use an ordinary and not special folder ( even
within "Music"/"My Music") such as one called Playlist in "My
Music"/"Music".


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