At 10:53 AM -0500 6/29/07, Ken Ray wrote:
First of all, where are you creating the files? Is it in the Program
Files folder? If so, it will be virtualized to:
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\<APPNAME>\
Not there, nope. I was under the impression that this folder is no
longer writeable. The main app goes there, but none of the files
that require writeability.
My code actually runs thru a series of supposedly writeable folders
to see if they exist, and the first hit it gets that's where the
Prefs go. This to ensure that some OS change where a folder no
longer exists at least has a hope of finding a useable folder.
So using your example above as a template, I should be able to create
a series of VirtualStore paths to check? So if the path to the real
prefs file was:
C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application
Data/myCreatedPrefsFolder/myPrefsFiles
The virtual path (with no returns) would be:
C:/Users/<USERNAME>/AppData/Local/VirtualStore/
Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/<APPNAME>/
myCreatedPrefsFolder/myPrefsFiles
Would it also create the folder I created to put the prefs in? Or
would it just create the prefs files?
The code I use to find a preferences file path is as follows:
on prefsPath
global gPrefsFolder,sFolder
if platform() is "MacOS" then
put empty into gPrefsFolder
put "Preferences,Docs,Desktop" into tit
repeat for each item x in tit
put specialFolderPath(x) into sFolder
put specialFolderPath(x) & "/myFolderName" into gPrefsFolder
if gPrefsFolder is not empty then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
else if platform() is "Win32" then
put empty into gPrefsFolder
put "35,46,28,Documents,Desktop" into tit
repeat for each item x in tit
put specialFolderPath(x) into sFolder
put specialFolderPath(x) & "/myFolderName" into gPrefsFolder
if gPrefsFolder is not empty then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
end if
if there is not a folder gPrefsFolder then
create folder gPrefsFolder
end if
end prefsPath
First of all, where are you creating the files? Is it in the Program
Files folder? If so, it will be virtualized to:
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\<APPNAME>\
So this:
put specialFolderPath(x) & "/VirtualStore" into dPath
put "/someFile" after dPath
if there is a file dPath then
delete file dPath
end if
probably won't work... (This is covered in the Vista "Gotchas" tip at
http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env007.htm).
He does have Vista. So.... does Vista allow create and not delete?
And is it possible to delete from VirtualStore?
Yes... in fact I've been able to delete from the VirtualStore even with
UAC turned on. So I just think it's a path issue. Best would be to
check to see if the file exists before you try to delete it, IMHO.
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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