You are right. Some files are being written to the "compatibility folder" but read from the actual folder. I wonder why the behaviour is different between 32 bit and 64 bit though. I think I am better off avoiding this all together.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > There are nasty problems with 'mirrored' files in windows folders in Vista > and I assume similar issues in W7. A file write that should fail because of > security has a faked success by writing to an alternate user folder. Doesn't > quite sound like what you are seeing, but you might want to check. Do clean > experiments with junk files that you know never existed before and work with > them only with admin rights. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Thomas Costigliola > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I am using Windows 7 with admin privileges. I'm not sure what the >> means exactly but I can, for example, change files in the windows >> folder using the file browser after clicking yes to provide >> administrator access. Now in J 32 bit I can use 1!:2 to write to a >> protected file. However, in J 64 bit, I can read such a file but I can >> not write; I get a file name error. >> >> I'm not sure if this is a J issue or a Windows 7 issue. Does anyone >> have any insight or work around for this? >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
