Where to Save Downloads -- Best Practice?

[Henk van der Velden]

Hello Shari,

Application Data is meant for that kind of stuff. Every user needs  
read / write access to this folder in order to be able to use  
(almost) any application.
You need to create a subfolder the same name as your application, and  
there you can put all your data.

Kind regards,

Henk
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On 19-nov-2006, at 19:01, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

>
>> Hello Katirswami,
>> I'm not sure if this already has been suggested to you, but did  
>> you try specialFolderPath(26)? This saves to "C:/Documents and  
>> Settings/MyUserId/Application Data/" which usually is open.
>>
>> Signe Marie Sanne
>
> In belatedly reading a few posts (you guys are very prolific!), I  
> came across this, and it begs a question...
>
> With many of the newer systems having very strong protections, such  
> that areas of the computer that were once usable are now "locked",  
> is this location a good place to put things that the application  
> will need to be able to modify without running into permissions  
> issues?
>
> Permission locks have been a bugger to deal with, espcecially if  
> the user is not the admin.  Would this location transcend the  
> problemo?
>
> Shari
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