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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2012 11:32 PM, Janzert wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:kac0d3$sfp$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite">On
12/13/2012 1:39 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 12/12/2012 6:10 PM, Janzert wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 12/12/2012 8:43 PM, Glenn Linderman
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On 12/12/2012 5:36 PM, Brian Curtin
wrote:
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>> C:\ProgramData\Python
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^^^^^ That. Is not the path that the link below is
talking
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about, though.
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It actually does; it is rather confusing though. :/
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I agree with the below. But I have never seen a version of
Windows on
<br>
which c:\ProgramData was the actual path for
FOLDERID_ProgramData. Can
<br>
you reference documentation that states that it was there, for
some
<br>
version? This documentation speaks of:
<br>
<br>
c:\Documents and Settings\AllUsers\Application Data (which I
knew from
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XP, and I think 2000, not sure I remember NT)
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In Vista.0, Vista.1, and Vista.2, I guess it is moved to
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C:\users\AllUsers\AppData\Roaming (typically).
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Neither of those would result in C:\ProgramData\Python.
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The SO answer links to the KNOWNFOLDERID docs; the relevant entry
specifically is at
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457.aspx#FOLDERID_ProgramData">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd378457.aspx#FOLDERID_ProgramData</a>
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which gives the default path as,
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<br>
%ALLUSERSPROFILE% (%ProgramData%, %SystemDrive%\ProgramData)
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checking on my local windows 7 install gives:
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C:\>echo %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
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C:\ProgramData
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C:\>echo %ProgramData%
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C:\ProgramData<br>
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Interesting. It _did_ say something about data that is not specific
to a user... and yet I overlooked that.<br>
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Those environment variable settings are, indeed, on my Win 7
machine, so I have erred and apologize.<br>
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That said, the directory C:\ProgramData does NOT exist on my Win 7
machine, so it appears that VERY LITTLE software actually uses that
setting. (I have nearly a hundred free and commercial packages
installed on this machine. Not that 100 is a large percentage of the
available software for Windows, but if the use was common, 100
packages would be likely to contain one that used it, eh?).<br>
<br>
Thanks for the education, especially because you had to beat it into
my skull!<br>
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