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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, John McDermott wrote:
> Mark H. Wood wrote:
[snip]
> >>Also, isn't that where *most* applications put their data, by default -
> >>in some directory under your profile directory? (Presumably that's why
> >>profile directories get put under "Documents and Settings" in NT 5.x.)
>
> > I'd say the best default for capture files would be to ask the shell for
> > the My Documents path. That's another place which can be separately
> > redirected, and it's appropriate for files which are used by an
> > application but are not an essential part of its setup. You need to ask
> > the shell because these paths are localizable.
>
>
> Yes, but according to this
> (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/gpx_redirecthome.mspx)
> which is all I know about redirection of My Documents because I stopped
> researching after I read it:
> 1) It should *only* be done for legacy support
> 2) It only works with XP Pro clients
> and
> 3) there are security and encryption issues
There are other options than using the Home Directory, which apparently
don't have these problems. Have a look at:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/gpx_redirectspecificadv.mspx
for example. Home Directory is a leftover from LanMan domain support and
apparently doesn't play well with ADS.
> I'd rather users get to choose where to put it.
Well, we are talking about defaults. The user should be able to reset
that default, but My Documents is a reasonable "default default".
- --
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@xxxxxxxxx
MS Windows *is* user-friendly, but only for certain values of "user".
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