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?
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