Safe place to write a file under Vista

[Richard Miller]

Thanks Mark.
Richard



Mark Smith wrote:
> Richard - 'the tempname' might be what you're after. ie.
>
> put the tempname into tFile
> -- do stuff with the file
> delete file tFile
>
> On my OS X machine, "put the tempname" gives this:
> /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/tmp0
> (repeated calls will increment that trailing zero)
>
> What it would be on windows, I don't know, but it will be an 
> appropriate equivalent.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On 2 Sep 2009, at 07:28, Richard Miller wrote:
>
>> I am finding that, on some Vista machines with some user settings, it 
>> is not possible to write a file from Rev to the root C drive. Seems 
>> that Vista blocks this action. Does that sound about right? If so, 
>> where is a reliable, safe place to write a file (which will soon 
>> thereafter be deleted)? Is specialfolderpath("documents") safe?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Richard Miller
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