On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 02:44:25PM +0200, Sebastian Redl wrote:
Jeff and others,
As a user of both Windows and UNIX (FreeBSD), I think that the discussion is overcomplicated. There several things an application needs to know about the directories:
1) Where to put/find user-specific configuration-data. 3) Where to put user-specific caches.
For Windows they are:
1) Application Data\Company Name\Product Name in user profile (CSIDL_APPDATA) 3) Application Data\Company Name\Product Name in user profile (CSIDL_APPDATA)
On 20.10.2010 14:09, Alexander Churanov wrote: 3) should be CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA, if available, since CSIDL_APPDATA is synced to the server for roaming profiles, which is a bad idea for caches.
Excuse me if it's posted before in this massive thread, but Raymond Chen says it best: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/07/01/434647.aspx << What's the difference between My Documents and Application Data? >> As for the whole "C:\ is the user's home directory", that's just wrong. First of all, a regular user do not have write access anywhere on C:, as there's ACLs to Deny it in several places, not to mention that applications without decent manifests will be virtualized if they try. Second of all, who says there exists a C: at all? I've had lots of software break spectacularly when I had my OS on E:. -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se