Pemission to create a directory
 

Hi NG,
I have created an addin which is installed under the Program Files directory
(%ProgramFiles%\myCompany\myApp).
Every now and then the addin archives some files in the %Program
Fies%\myCompany\myApp\Arch\Year directory but it will need to create these
directories on the fly.
Obviously, I have no trouble but then I have administrator rights on my
machine. Will all users be able to create these directories on win2000 and
winXP machines or am I going to have trouble with some users not having
permission to make a directory.

Thanks,
Fred

Pemission to create a directory
 

Hi Fred

You will have tons of trouble, trust me on this :-) The places you can
assume that users can write, create and delete is in My Documents, in Temp
and a few other places under "Documents and settings". None of those paths
can be hardcoded, so you need to read them on startup. Randy Birch has good
code at
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/browse/csidl.htm
for this.

HTH. Best wishes Harald


"fred" skrev i melding
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Hi NG,
I have created an addin which is installed under the Program Files
directory
(%ProgramFiles%\myCompany\myApp).
Every now and then the addin archives some files in the %Program
Fies%\myCompany\myApp\Arch\Year directory but it will need to create these
directories on the fly.
Obviously, I have no trouble but then I have administrator rights on my
machine. Will all users be able to create these directories on win2000 and
winXP machines or am I going to have trouble with some users not having
permission to make a directory.

Thanks,
Fred

Pemission to create a directory
 

Thanks Harald, looks like I have some work to do to change all of the
directory references.

Fred

"Harald Staff" wrote in message
...
Hi Fred

You will have tons of trouble, trust me on this :-) The places you can
assume that users can write, create and delete is in My Documents, in Temp
and a few other places under "Documents and settings". None of those paths
can be hardcoded, so you need to read them on startup. Randy Birch has
good
code at
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/browse/csidl.htm
for this.

HTH. Best wishes Harald


"fred" skrev i melding
...
Hi NG,
I have created an addin which is installed under the Program Files
directory
(%ProgramFiles%\myCompany\myApp).
Every now and then the addin archives some files in the %Program
Fies%\myCompany\myApp\Arch\Year directory but it will need to create
these
directories on the fly.
Obviously, I have no trouble but then I have administrator rights on my
machine. Will all users be able to create these directories on win2000
and
winXP machines or am I going to have trouble with some users not having
permission to make a directory.

Thanks,
Fred