I'm trying to make some changes to play nice on Vista... Currently our
product has several folders that it places under Program Files, e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_A
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_B
C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_C
The purpose of these folders was to store documents that the user would load
and possibly modify, as well as saving new doucments that they create.. such
that they are shared for all users of "Product"
In some cases the files in these folders are made available via the
application UI by choosing them from a combo box. In other cases they are
selected with a Open File dialog.
Vista isn't happy about putting files under the Program Files folder though.
(Which isn't going to serve the purpose MS thinks it will - but whatever.)
So I was going to relocate all of the file to *CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA*
\Company\Product\Data*
It seemed like the right place for the files - and I still think it is the
right place for *some* of the files, but sadly *CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA* is a
hidden folder and so the open file dialogs aren't going to show it and the
users won't be able to browse to there - if they happen to broswe out of the
default folder.
That lead me to think that the right place for some of those data folder was
under the folder for CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS .. but I can't see a way to
install any files there via MSI.
The some of the data will be machine specifc, so I don't want it to "roam".
Most of the data will be shared amoung all users of the application, so I
want to avoid having things end up in "My Documents".
What are my options? Have I overlooked the correct location?
Thanks,
Scott
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