On 3/10/2011 12:28 PM, Tim Riley wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 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.
Yeah, but then you get the "Oh, you can find an obscure setting to 
change this location, but I won't move/copy the files in the old one for 
you, so everything 100% completely breaks, the moment you actually do 
that! Isn't that so helpful!!?", issue. :p

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