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

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:01 +0200, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
> 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.

Cool, I'm curious as well what your interest is in this project and also
what you would like to do to push it along?

Also, how can I assist you to get where you want to get?

Jon

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