Windows 10 file paths

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jan 14 17:32:39 EST 2016


The file is in the build and Win 7 can find it. Win 10 can't. It isn't 
that the file doesn't exist, it's that Win 10 can't see it.

On 1/14/2016 3:15 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
> I don't know when it started, but even in Win7 I have had to include it in
> the copy files pane for quite a while.  It seems like it started around LC
> 6.5 to 6.6 builds.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:48 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I need to ensure the user has not deleted the revSecurity.dll file. This
>> works on Windows 7 and under:
>>
>>      put "revsecurity.dll" into tWinFile
>>      put the filename of this stack into tFilepath
>>      set the itemdel to slash
>>      put tWinFile into last item of tFilepath
>>      put there is a file tFilepath into tExists
>>
>> It fails on Windows 10, which can't find the file. If the user manually
>> opens the app folder, the file is there. Anyone know why?
>>
>> Should I be using specialFolderPath("engine") or maybe the new
>> specialFolderPath("resources")?
>>
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