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"Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:01
by 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.
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:06
by grindax
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:24
by 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).
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:29
by grindax
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:30
by admin
The function works. What makes you think that your Application Data folder is C:\Program Files\XYplorer\Data\ ?
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:45
by j_c_hallgren
admin wrote: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:
admin wrote:Stefan wrote:admin wrote: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:
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:47
by aurumdigitus
admin wrote: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.
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:52
by grindax
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:53
by grindax
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 16:55
by PeterH
aurumdigitus wrote: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
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 17:04
by aurumdigitus
grindax wrote: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.
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 17:06
by j_c_hallgren
grindax wrote: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".
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 17:10
by grindax
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Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 17:19
by 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.
Re: "Go to Application Data folder" doesn't
Posted: 22 Sep 2010 18:02
by 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.
