>Hi Dragan.
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>>But if I got this right, that's exactly where local data should go - user data, ini files, .data folder, etc etc.
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>No, local data should go into one of the writable folders discussed in http://doughennig.blogspot.com/2007/01/finding-paths-for-special-folders.html. Alternatively, you can create a subdirectory of the application's folder, set permissions so users can write to it, and store them there. But definitely not in the app folder itself.

Grrrmmblblphhh... then I'll go for the custom directory. Because I'm writing setups for a couple of guys who sell third party apps; in some cases I have no communication whatsoever with actual authors.