Place to stash a text file in Vista thats shared by all users?

[Eric Chatonet]

Chris and Richard,

I was confronted with this problem and the 'horrible' way Vista makes  
its own of all it wants as it wants.
But you know this too...
Sometimes, I do regret to not be obliged to work on my Mac only ;-)

I had noticed that Norton LiveUpdate folder and others significant  
data that have to be updated frequently were there...
And as far as I can agree (!!!) the way Vista makes its job, I assume  
that C:/ProgramData (the name itself is significant) could be the  
right place and it works for me AFAIK.

Chris, you say that some files you put in it were nevertheless  
virtualized?
It would be interesting to go to the bottom of this: can you share  
circumstances when it happened?

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.

Le 1 nov. 07 à 16:33, Chris Sheffield a écrit :

> Watch out for this though. It's been my experience, and maybe it's  
> just some sort of bug for now in Vista that will later be fixed,  
> that even sometimes writing to C:\ProgramData will cause things to  
> be redirected to the user's VirtualStore, which in some cases may  
> be okay, but in other's not okay at all.
>
> I found the Public Documents folder to be about the safest place  
> for me. I realize it's maybe not the best place to store a prefs  
> file, but it seems to work best as far as all users being able to  
> access it, without things being redirected to the VirtualStore. The  
> official path is C:\Users\Public\Public Documents.
>
> My two cents...
>
> Chris Sheffield
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Eric Chatonet wrote:
>>> Le 31 oct. 07 à 19:11, rgould8 at aol.com a écrit :
>>>> Can anyone tell me if there's a directory somewhere in Windows   
>>>> Vista that is accessible by all users of the PC??
>>> specialFoderPath(35) (C:/ProgramData) seems the directory you need.
>>
>> Good find, Eric.  Thanks!
>>
>> Some months ago we had a discussion here looking for such a  
>> directory, and no one could turn up one which was writable by even  
>> non-admin accounts.
>>
>> But I was able to verify that specialFolderPath(35) can indeed be  
>> written to and read from by admin and non-admin accounts.
>>
>> Good sleuthing!
>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Managing Editor, revJournal
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