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28 Jul 2024 22:16:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: VirtualStore in Vista and file relocation  
From: Christian Froeschlin
Date: 7 Jul 2008 17:47:32
Message: <48728ef4@news.povray.org>
Bob Hughes wrote:

> Interestingly, there's only a biscuit.bmp in a 3.6 scenes\advanced 
> subfolder there. 

Probably the only sample scene you actually rendered
with 3.6 on Vista without administrator privileges.

> Speaking of the scenes folder... realizing the 3.7 beta is putting one 
> into the other path at
> 
> C:\Users\*name*\AppData\roaming\POV-Ray for Windows v3.7
> 
> and none into the usual place at
> 
> C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.7

That is actually the intended solution of the Vista problems:
Install ini and scene files where the user is allowed to write
in the first place, then you need no virtual store.


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