On 09-Mar-11 17:10, Robert McGregor wrote:
> "Mike the Elder"<nomail@nomail>  wrote:
>> How do I tell POV-Pay to look for POVRAY.ini somewhere BESIDES "My Documents"?
>>
>> I'm setting it up on an office machine that has a morning user, but that will be
>> free for rendering use at night.
>>
>> I don't want ANYTHING POV-Ray related in "My Documents" (I also don't wish to
>> set up multiple users.) Once I get it to read POVRAY.ini, I can easily do the
>> rest with "Library_Path".
>>
>> It's an XP Pro system in case that matters.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all replies.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Mike C.
>
> Chris Cason would know, but it /is/ irritating to say the least. I do miss the
> good ol' days when everything was in the application directory.
>
> It's ironic to me that INI files (INItialization files) used to be stored in
> their application directory and would determine the initialization of various
> app settings, and now they're scattered all around the hard disk and mapped to
> some crazy registry keys in multiple places and for multiple users, so the app
> has to look up the keys that tell it how to find the files that tell it how to
> initialize its settings... /sigh
>
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>
Security. Ever since Vista, the user has to have Administrative privileges to write to
the "Program Files" directory, so 
any file that might get updated during runtime has to be in a directory that the user
has write privileges for (i.e. the 
"\Documents and Settings\<username>" directory where the "My Documents" directory
resides"). It is easiest to assume 
that the user _doesn't_ have Administrative privileges to simplify the installation
process. Mr. C can elaborate.

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