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

Jasper van de Gronde th.v.d.gronde at hccnet.nl
Wed Aug 9 01:01:11 PDT 2006


Jon Phillips wrote:
> 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.

I've updated it. I also added an explanation of how to find the 
mentioned paths.


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