[CREATE] All users profile instead of common files on Windows?

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:26 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
> I read "Shared_resources" on the Wiki and saw the proposal to use the 
> following directories on Windows:
> C:\%COMMONFILES%\create and C:\%APPDATA%\create (for local use)
> 
> If I understand correctly the idea is to store data files there and not 
> applications, so why put it in Program Files and not the Application 
> Data directory of the All Users Profile (%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application 
> Data on my system, although there might be a better way to find it).
> 
> I think using the All Users profile instead of the Program Files\Common 
> Files directory would better communicate that the directory contains 
> similar files, only meant for all users instead of just one.

This sounds reasonable. Jasper, could you please investigate further and
update the current working spec on our wiki.

Thanks!

Jon

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