checking removable drives

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Nov 3 15:58:45 EST 2005


Chipp Walters wrote:
> Richard,
> 
> In many situations with managed clients using active directory domains, 
> writing to the 'Programs Folder' is *not permitted*. This is 
> particularly a problem in Enterprise and can also be a problem for 
> 'Guest' users.
> 
> That is the reason why I use the AppPath or the UserPath method.

Precisely why the scheme Paul and Bill came up with seems to hold up 
thus far:

If an app can't write to its own directory, it must be installed on the 
hard drive and not running from a removable device.


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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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