Hi Eric,
Honestly I don't recall the exact circumstances, as it has now been
some time ago. But my company was doing an update to our software back
when Vista was first hitting the market, and we wanted everything to
be Vista-compatible. We also needed a place to store a prefs file that
Hello,
Le 31 oct. 07 à 19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Can anyone tell me if there's a directory somewhere in Windows
Vista that is accessible by all users of the PC?? I need to find a
place to stash a preference file for my app that can be accessed,
no matter which user is logged in.
Eric Chatonet wrote:
Le 31 oct. 07 à 19:11, rgould8 at aol.com a écrit :
Can anyone tell me if there's a directory somewhere in Windows
Vista that is accessible by all users of the PC??
specialFoderPath(35) (C:/ProgramData) seems the directory you need.
Good find, Eric. Thanks!
Some
Watch out for this though. It's been my experience, and maybe it's
just some sort of bug for now in Vista that will later be fixed, that
even sometimes writing to C:\ProgramData will cause things to be
redirected to the user's VirtualStore, which in some cases may be
okay, but in other's
Chris and Richard,
I was confronted with this problem and the 'horrible' way Vista makes
its own of all it wants as it wants.
But you know this too...
Sometimes, I do regret to not be obliged to work on my Mac only ;-)
I had noticed that Norton LiveUpdate folder and others significant
data
Can anyone tell me if there's a directory somewhere in Windows Vista that is
accessible by all users of the PC?? I need to find a place to stash a
preference file for my app that can be accessed, no matter which user is logged
in.
Rob,
long time no see, I hope you're doing fine!
I don't have Vista here so I can't test this but Ken Ray has compiled
this nice resource where he list the SpecialFolderPaths for MacOS X,
XP and Vista.
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/file010.htm
Cheers
andre
On 10/31/07,
