[Coco] vcc virtual floppies

[mike delyea]

I've figured out what the problem is.  Vcc does not like you making the
virtual disks in the Vcc directory under Windows 7, it wants to put them in
your documents folder.  To verify this I installed Vcc on my desktop and
created a disk in the default location (documents).  Lo and behold, there
was the file.  I went back to my laptop, where the problem originated, and
created a disk on drive 2 in my documents folder.  Bingo, the file is in my
documents folder.  So I copied the file from my "phantom" disk to the disk
in drive 2.  Now I can bring my program over to my desktop.  Bill, UAC is
set to default settings - the issue may have something to do with
privileges in the Program Files folder.  At any rate the problem was easily
solved - DON'T CREATE DISKS IN THE VCC FOLDER.


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

>
> Mike
> Do you have UAC on in Windows? If so, all files you create/modify are
> stored in a "secret" dir to lock out other users using "your" file. I had
> this problem when I did a "restore" of my windows system and UAC (User
> Account Control) was ON by default. It was a mess getting things back right
> after turning that off as it had been on for 2 weeks before I discovered it
> and everything I had created/installed didn't exist where it said it was.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Fri, Nov 29, 2013 5:24 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] vcc virtual floppies
>
>
> There is no file.  I have "show hidden files" enabled but nothing is
> there.  Additionally, when windows search finds it and I right click it and
> select properties it shows its location as the vcc directory, but if I
> click on any other of the property tabs windows says the file doesn't
> exist.  I am just about to install Vcc on my desktop to see if the behavior
> is consistent.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > How did you send it to the memory stick? I just used drag-n-drop to copy
> a
> > image file to a usb 200G external hard drive and it copied the file. I
> > don't know what causes the system to create a shortcut instead.
> >
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 2:10 PM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I installed Vcc the other day and made a virtual floppy by inserting
> into
> > > the fd502 and calling it blank1.dsk.  I formatted it, wrote a program
> and
> > > saved it to the disk.  Later I loaded the program and everything worked
> > > fine.  The problem is I wanted to copy the disk so I could use it on
> > > another computer.  I used win7 search to find it and sent it to a USB
> > > stick.  When I looked at it on the USB stick it was just a shortcut,
> not
> > > the .dsk file I was expecting.  I looked in c:\program files\vcc and
> > there
> > > is no blank1.dsk.  Windows search shows its location as c:\program
> > > files\vcc but if you click on any of the property tabs of the file it
> > says
> > > it doesn't exist.  To double check everything I created another disk in
> > > another drive (same vcc) and the same thing happens.  Where are these
> > disks
> > > so I can move them around?  Will I have to use a virtual disk I already
> > > created that is an actual file?
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