Hi Hilmar,
Dunno what IMNSHO means. It's not expanded by UT. :)

Your pledge for "My Documents" is understood. See the star.

But I do have serious doubts about your suggestion "c:\ViaFox\...". Indeed, some companies (want to) install stuff at that C-root level, but IMO it's rather intruding, impolite and incorrect. Those companies show somewhat ego-centric (MyCom-centric) behavior.

It's my hunch that where these days only some companies still want to install at the C-root level, a higher percentage of developers (including vfp-developers) still want to install the software at that level. You can imagine that I also oppose this MyApp-centric behavior, for the same reasons.


>IMNSHO, if you want to use a folder that is pre-defined by Windows, I would use "My Documents", where Word and Excel also save their files. The reason to use this common folder is so that the files are included in a backup.
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>Or, you might just suggest c:\ViaFox\App1\Data.
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>>Hi All,
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>>Here's my current problem. The setup of MyApp gives the user the opportunity to choose a folder for the DATA. I can set a default, but I have doubts. Should I initially offer the ...
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>>CommonAppData, like "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data"
>> or
>>CommonDocs, like "c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents"
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>>The terms CommonAppData and CommonDocs are from InnoSetup.
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>>My problem is that I'm not sure about their real definition according to MS. There must be a, perhaps subtle, difference. Can you Americans explain in simple words that are understood all over the world?