windows defender issues? & other AV issues

[Bob Sneidar]

When I first distributed my Forms Generator to Windows users, I had it put into the Program Files folder. They immediately reported CTD almost as soon as they launched the app and after signing in. I traced it to the fact that I routinely save my stacks by script in development so I do not lose any changes. I had to completely refactor to not do that anymore, and to keep any persistent changes I needed to save in a prefs file. 

Bottom line, when distributing standalone, IMHO, don't save anything with the stack, or else install the standalone in a place where the user has write access by default. 

Bob S


> On Jan 15, 2019, at 08:38 , Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> There should be no problem to copy/write/save a stack to the folder AppData . This is the recommended place if your app needs to write data to disk. It can be access using specialfolderpath("Support") or specialfolderpath(26).
> 
> Or has this really changed in Windows 10?
> 
> Matthias Rebbe