> On Sep 3, 2018, at 8:49 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 September 2018 at 18:31, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sep 3, 2018, at 8:26 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 3 September 2018 at 18:12, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Lubomir, >>>> >>>> In commit 0c74f7a2c8 you added a feature to automatically create a log file >>>> on Windows when started from a shortcut. I was just going to ask a user to >>>> send me that log file but realized that I didn't know where it was in the >>>> file >>>> system. So I tried this and I cannot find it... >>>> >>>> Can you help? >>>> >>> >>> the log files should be written in the folder where subsurface.exe is. >>> we install Subsurface in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Subsurface" by >>> default and the log files are created there for me on each run. >> >> I tried that. Hmm. Nope, not there. >> > > do you happen to have installed subsurface with an administrator > account, but run it as a regular user?
I think that's the default on most systems these days. You elevate your rights to admin in order to install software, but then you run it without those admin rights. > if this is a permission issue, it can be verified if you try to just > create a TXT file in the subsurface.exe folder with the regular user > and see if it works. Correct, I get Access Denied - as I should. > a possible fix for that would be to always write in the user folder, > although i think the problem here is something else. > > is antivirus software running? > i've seen AVs blocking the creation of log files before. No, I don't think that's it. I think we should create the log file in AppData\Local\Subsurface /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
