"Go to Application Data folder" doesn't

[aurumdigitus]

Happened to notice that Go to Application Data folder in fact goes to same location as Go to Application folder. Not catastrophic but disconcerting.
Using 9.50.0100.

[grindax]

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[aurumdigitus]

C:\Program Files\XYplorer\XYplorer.ini

C:\Program Files\XYplorer\

C:\Program Files\XYplorer\Data\

The last is where IMO Go To Application Data Folder should lead (unless I'm really missing the point here).

[grindax]

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[admin]

The function works. What makes you think that your Application Data folder is C:\Program Files\XYplorer\Data\ ?

[j_c_hallgren]

The function works. What makes you think that your Application Data folder is C:\Program Files\XYplorer\Data\ ?

Well, based on this post http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 907#p51907 where you said so? Now this applies to using a portable setup on a possibly non-portable drive but is still valid, I thought.

Addendum: Here's the bulk of post linked above for quicker ref:

Only if app folder and app data folder are identical (= unusual setup of older days which is not recommended since 8.90)

BTW I think it is very usual to have exe and data in one common folder since many use XYplorer as an portable app.

Yes, but the recommended and code-supported way is to have them in subfolder \Data:

[aurumdigitus]

The function works. What makes you think that your Application Data folder is C:\Program Files\XYplorer\Data\ ?

Common sense really. Else why have two Menu|Go items point to the same folder?

If the XY Data folder is NOT for data perhaps it should be called something else, e.g. Folder without a real function.

[grindax]

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[grindax]

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[PeterH]

Common sense really. Else why have two Menu|Go items point to the same folder?

Maybe they *can* be different folders?
(Hey - grindax was faster )

[aurumdigitus]

Do a fresh install on Vista/7 for example,

Okay - if this is done for reasons of forward compatibility then it is understandable. For someone still using and quite content with XP SP3 it ought to be explained somewhere.

[j_c_hallgren]

Well, based on this post http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 907#p51907 where you said so?

But arumdigitus *does* have an XYplorer.ini in the app path, so I don't think this applies.

Agreed that may well be true, but I was simply pointing out that the Data subfolder within XY is what would be most likely expected to be the destination of the "Go to App Data".

[grindax]

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[aurumdigitus]

grindax - The proper and correct location for statup.ini and XYplorer.ini for a multiplicity of reasons have been causing me much grief over the last month so forgive sensitivity on the subject.

[admin]

What's so difficult about:

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If
- no app data path is set by command line
- AND (no startup.ini is found in app path OR startup.ini contains no app data path)
- AND no XYplorer.ini is found in app path
then the app data path is auto-set to <xypath>\Data.