infradead is down

Chris Marriott chris at chrism.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 11 05:39:38 EST 2013


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From: get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org [get_iplayer-bounces at lists.infradead.org] on behalf of Kapitano [kapitano72 at gmail.com]
Sent: 11 February 2013 08:58
To: get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: infradead is down

>Is there a compelling reason why the settings, cache, pvr file etc.
>can't be stored in the get_iplayer folder itself?

>From Windows 7 onwards, an non-privileged application does not have write access to the "Program Files" folder. Hence settings should be stored under either "ApplicationData" (for application-wide settings), or "Username" (for user-specific settings). get_iplayer is correctly following the Windows programming guidelines in the way it stores its data.

Chris


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