Studio 6.1 and AppData folder

[Greg Simpson]

There is one "gotcha" here. If you install in Program Files the AppData folder gets written to differently. For instance, installing Omnis outside of Program Files, it will add a ...\TigerLogic\... Folder in the AppData folder while installing it within the Program Files folder does not have the TigerLogic folder. 

Greg

> On Dec 31, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me> wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> In a nutshell, Windows since Vista does not allow a program to modify
> anything within the program files folder structure. This is mostly to
> fight malware and virusses.
> Any changes made to program files will seem "to work" but in fact are
> written off to a separate hidden location as a quaranteen measure.
> 
> Keep this in mind if you have written any sort of auto update logic that
> replaces to push out new libraries or new xcomps as it will seem to work
> but horribly fail picking up older versions of files while you see the
> "correct" versions of the files (Mac followed suit and does the same,
> but atleast fails if you try and make changes to the app structure)
> 
> As Omnis has many files that are modifiable (omnis.cfg, all the df1s and
> lbs, etc) they are now written into c:\user\<current
> user>\appdata\yourprogram 
> c:\user\default\appdata\yourprogram simply contains default files and is
> shared amongst all users (We use c:\program files\omnis\firstruninstall
> whose contents gets copied into c:\user\<current
> user>\appdata\yourprogram the first time you run Omnis for a user).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bas
> 
>> On 1/01/2015 5:42 am, brian at revolution911.com wrote:
>> I noticed with Studio 6.1 installs some files where I direct it and then by
>> default install other files into the c:\user\default\appdata folder.  What
>> is the purpose for this and can I move all the files inside the appdata
>> folder back into the main folder where the Omnis.exe file resides?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
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