special folders

[Bill Marriott]

The Application Data folder is hidden, but it *is* one of the locations that 
you can be sure even limited accounts can write to.... even on Vista.

"Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote in message 
news:20070502220926174957.7410f4db at sonsothunder.com...
> On Wed, 02 May 2007 18:38:01 -0500, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Ken Ray wrote:
>>
>>> There are a lot more examples, but you get the idea. So to develop
>>> for the widest possible distribution, you want to accommodate users
>>> of all levels, so the guidelines say that you should:
>>>
>>> - Put the executable file in the Applications/Program Files/etc. folder
>>> - Put files that the application uses, that usually won't be
>>> modified or need to be accessed by multiple users, and likely should
>>> not be seen (or not seen very often) by end users in an Application
>>> Support/Application Data/etc. folder
>>> - Put files that *do* change, are user-specific, or hold
>>> user-generated data in the user's Documents/My Documents folder
>>
>> Where would you put a file that the app itself needs to update,
>> regardless of which user is running it? I've been putting that file
>> into an "all users/application data/myapp/" folder but if there are
>> permissions problems with that, what then?
>
> Well, there's the rub - there isn't a simple answer. The problem is
> that for truly "locked down" users, the application itself would need
> to elevate its permissions to take actions that the currently logged-in
> user's permissions do not allow. OS X we can do with "sudo" and get
> authorization; Trevor just found a way to ask for authorization under
> Vista, but for other Windows flavors there isn't a solution for
> Revolution that's been made known.
>
> What I've ended up needing to do is to request that Windows users get
> added to the "Power Users" group, which gives them some form of
> elevated access, but doesn't quite make them "Administrators". However
> some companies won't even allow that...
>
> If I find out a way to do it, I'll make a tip out of it and let
> everyone know...
>
> :-)
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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