Saving Prefs on Windows

[Signe Marie Sanne]

Sivakatirswami skrev:

> I'm finding I really need to have my apps take greater control over  
> installation locations, upgrades, prefs etc. otherwise support time  
> goes way up for naive users... i.e. basic operations like the above  
> just needs to happen automatically...
> 
> for OSX, it is clear where to save supporting  files...
> 
> /Applications/myRevApp/someApp.rev
> /Library/Application Support/myRevApp/supportFiles..../
> 
> but I'm not familiar with Windows. In one app I am just saving some  
> Prefs for my app in the user's Documents/myRevAppPrefs/  folder...  
> using the special path.. some Windows users are not super happy about  
> this... as it is not normal Windows behavior.
> 
> Is it ok to simply make a new folder in the Windows System folder and  
> put your prefs and any lo-level support files there? These being  files 
> the users never needs to see or edit.
> 

Very often lots of directories on Windows are blocked for access. If you use 
specialfolderPath(26) this directory is usually open for storing files.

This directory is C:/Documents and Settings/.../Application Data

Signe Marie Sanne

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