AW: Difference between XP and Vista/7?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Lars,

As Scott as said, from the system side, everything is said already.
I think you have to deal with techniques, how to handle an app with
different files at different locations, so that you can update your files,
what you can't, if you store them in the program dir. You have to say
goodbye to your technique of a one file standalone or a standalone at one
place. For storing datas, which can be changed by the user there are a lot
of different approaches. If you are using just another stack file or XML
file or databases, or whatever, the common thing is the place where to store
these updatable files, and that is what we have pointed to in the past
posts. There are also a lot of threads to these topics.
Tiemo

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> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Scott Morrow
> Gesendet: Montag, 2. November 2009 09:59
> An: How to use Revolution
> Betreff: Re: Difference between XP and Vista/7?
> 
> Hello Lars,
> 
> Nothing new here, just another way of phrasing it. The previous posts
> have pointed out the importance of putting your writable files outside
> of the Programs folder and into a folder that the user has permission
> to write to.  Under XP many (though not all) users and applications
> had permission to write to the Programs folder but under Vista the
> default setting is that they can't.
> 
> On the Mac it is actually quite similar.  While many home users DO
> have permission to write to the Applications folder, this is not
> always the case.  Under managed user accounts (very common in business
> or education settings where IT manages the machines) the primary user
> may NOT be the administrator and so may not have write privileges to
> the Applications folder.  One approach is to have the "Splash.app"
> start by making sure that there is a copy of the writable files in the
> user's  < Library/Application Support > folder.  If the files aren't
> there, it copies these files out of the Applications folder and into
> the user's writable directory before loading them.
> 
> Scott Morrow
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