<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Matthew Talbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ransom1982@gmail.com">ransom1982@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">> 2) $APPDATA\Sword (preferred location)<br>> 3) $HOME\.sword (this needs to be deprecated under windows in favour of the above - and it needs engine support added to look for the above)<br><br>
</div>GS uses this now, but would use 2) if engine support was added.<br><br>> 4) $ALLUSERSPROFILE\Sword<br><br>GS uses ALLUSERSPROFILE\.sword, but we could probably change to Sword</blockquote>
<div>Under windows, there shouldn't be pathnames starting with ".". That is a unix thing. This needs to be changed in the engine, as well.<br></div>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> and maybe (under Vista, anyway - but not sure what the function of $PUBLIC is meant to be)<br>> 5) $PUBLIC\Sword<br>><br>> The last two are very likely to be read only under Vista at least; I don't think there is any central directory where all users can write to.<br>
<br></div>I don't know about $PUBLIC but under XP and Vista, ALLUSERSPROFILE is<br>writable by both normal user and administrator on my systems (although<br>I was previously under the impression that it wasn't writable on<br>
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<div>Digging deeper into the permissions, users can do almost anything to public, but not delete from ALLUSERSPROFILE. I'm not sure which of those is best.</div>
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