>Hi Naomi,
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>I agree with others who advise against editing access rights to this folder that is supposed to be read-only.
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>The suggestion about Users\Public is a good one... but the original design seems to be limited to a stand-alone solution. Is this definitely what you want- e.g. is it certain that no customer ever will want data on a server for automated backups etc? Perhaps you could default to a folder in %public% while allowing/encouraging advanced users to overwrite with their preferred server/folder.
Well, this document suggests that ProgramData/AppName folder is fine and setting its permissions is fine also (that's what our installers are doing)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjacks/archive/2008/02/05/where-should-i-write-program-data-instead-of-program-files.aspxThe problem seems to be localized to the latest build, so we need to figure out what exactly went wrong with it.
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