specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

[JB]

Will you ever give them the option to write
certain files to the desktop or is that becoming
a bad idea too?


JB


> On Apr 14, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/14/2016 1:33 PM, Klaus major-k wrote:
>> Hi firends,
>> 
>> on Wndows XP and 7, I usually to store user preferences in
>> ->  specialFolderPath(35) 
>> ### For all users!
>> resp.
>> -> specialfolderpath(26) 
>> ## for the current user only!
>> 
>> Is this still valid for Windows 8, 9 and 10?
>> Thanks a lot in advance!
>> 
> 
> We have a lot of Windows users  of our cross-platform product. Many in
> setting where their computers are on university of company networks,
> some with remote home directory, and many with various parts of Windows
> "locked" down for security. Increasing, I am realizing where Windows or
> OSX, desktop OSes are going the way of Mobile OSes with Sandboxing,and
> they want  you to place everything in the User's Library, typically the
> Documents which is becoming the only place you are still guaranteed to
> have access to. Baring having to reduce scope to make deadlines, our
> next release will test write access to a list of windows file locations
> for an app's files and the last on the list will be Documents. We'll
> just create a subfolder with our app name and place prefs and licensing
> files and so in there. Eventually I think, we'll just use the Documents
> folder.
> 
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