Hi, At one point I thought this discussion was decided in favor of using specialfolderpath(35) rather than (26). If I remember, it had something to do with the way Win 7 handled installations. Is it better to use (26) or (35)?
Thanks Ron On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: David Glasgow wrote: Hello folks, My platform specific saving data script now works fine.... thanks for the advice so far. However, I was thrown a bit because Specialfolderpath (26) on my Vista machine points to a folder ..../appdata/roaming But it's inside your user folder. Pre-Vista, it points to the user data in application data, and Vista + it points to the user data in appdata/roaming. It's just a change in folder structure. Both places are the approved location for storing user-specific data. As far as I can make out, if a user is logged into a server, this directory is saved there, and will be accessible whatever machine is subsequently used to log in. I have to say I don't quite understand how that would work in practice, because presumably each machine could have a different variant of appdata/roaming...... No, it should save to the local drive. SpecialFolderPath points to the local system. Apart form not quite getting what is going on with the roaming thing, my questions are: 1/ Does Specialfolderpath (26) serve different purposes on other Win versions? No. Same thing. 2/ Does it matter that a standalone for a single user & non networked computer is saving information in the ..../appdata/roaming directory? No. Both save to the local drive. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
