Programs cannot open their folders

What would cause the problems in the programs, where the
program always starts up in its internal system folder?

I can manually open the folder(s) after the application
starts, but the application cannot automatically open its
data storage folder. This is located on a second drive in
the system case.

Lester

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:05:09 -0400, Lester Stiefel wrote:

> What would cause the problems in the programs, where the
> program always starts up in its internal system folder?
>
> I can manually open the folder(s) after the application
> starts, but the application cannot automatically open its
> data storage folder. This is located on a second drive in
> the system case.
>
> Lester

I suggest you talk to the programmers who wrote the app. They made it do
that.

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:46:15 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:05:09 -0400, Lester Stiefel wrote:
>
>> What would cause the problems in the programs, where the
>> program always starts up in its internal system folder?
>>
>> I can manually open the folder(s) after the application
>> starts, but the application cannot automatically open its
>> data storage folder. This is located on a second drive in
>> the system case.
>>
>> Lester
>
> I suggest you talk to the programmers who wrote the app. They made it do
> that.

A bit of amplification is in order.

1. The program may be coded to forget the folder assignment that you made.
Many do that, unfortunately.

2. The program may try to store its info in its own folder in the Programs
or Programs (x86) folder tree. This doesn't do well in Vista - it wants
them to use a folder under Documents or somewhere.

Either of those problems ultimately is a result of how the program was
made. I have the second problem in MesNews, for instance. I think in some
cases you can work around it by installing a program in the wrong place,
i.e., not in one of the Programs folders.

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom