[Coco] DriveWire 4 Installation

[Bill Pierce]

The common place Windows 7-11 uses for config files & such is the AppData folder. We had to do the same to VCC to avoid the permissions issues. VCC uses:
"C:\Users\%home%\AppData\VCC"

The "%home%" being the current user's name as defined by Windows. Most Windows programming environments recognize "%home%". Some may use just AppDataPath"\\VCC" if it is defined in a library. I'm sure there's other methods.


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From: qbancoffee via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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Sent: Thu, Feb 9, 2023 12:38 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] DriveWire 4 Installation

Hi Rob,


Glad to hear its working!

At the moment DriveWire4 looks for and saves its configuration in 
several xml files located in its working directory. Windows is more than 
likely stopping DriveWire from writing to "Program Files" since user 
programs generally shouldn't have write access to that location.

Have you tried using the installer? If you do, select the default 
install location or any other location that your account has write 
permissions in.

If you end up using the installer, it will create a launcher icon to 
make things a little easier.

One of the minimal changes I want to make to DriveWire 4 is to have it 
save its configuration in a user directory so that it can be installed 
in "Program Files".




Thanks,


Pedro

On 2/9/23 3:08 AM, Rob Rosenbrock via Coco wrote:
> Having a rather strange issue with DriveWire 4… (Windows 7)
>
> I unzipped the files into my download folder which is located on drive D. It runs great!
>
> Decided to move it into the program files folder on drive C. Now I get the opening splash screen and then nothing.
>
> I have checked permissions for the folder - same as my other folders. Even rebooted. Still no luck.
>
> I can go back to the D drive, and even move the folder around. It still works.
>
> Why would it refuse to operate on the C drive?
>

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