I'll raise this again as a separate topic.
We're getting problems with (plastic) apps using .Xxxx directories to store temporary files.
Doing a demo the other day on a (WinXP) machine configured by the department (and so not changeable) we kept getting 'profile storage space exceeded' messages from the OS. This because all the apps were using $HOME/.xxx directories as scratch space: this area in Windows is for user profile information not general storage. We need some way that users can point to some other 'home' directory for AR/PLASTIC apps.
The main offender was Aladin because it stored a couple of VOTable files in the $HOME/.aladin directory.
Can I ask that anyone writing an application which might be run under windows *not* store anything in the $HOME/.xxx type of directory. Temporary files should go in the Temp directory and application profiles in a $HOME/Application Data/xxx directory.
I see that gaim, firefox, thunderbird etc all do this correctly - can someone look up how they handle it and place the advice up here?
And apologies if any of this is duff information - feel free to correct the above if I am wrong.
Cheers,
Tony.
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Received on 2007-02-13Z15:44:05