Valentina problem with a limited user on Windows XP

[Pierre Rossel]

Hello,

Please read the bug report. I copied the application folder to the desktop.
Nothing in program files or anything. Just the desktop of the user. To be
sure, I just tested to make another copy of the folder to be sure to have
all possible privileges a user can have. I even tried to copy the test
folder to the root of another hard disk, in order to have short and
spaceless path. Still no success.

The point is: have you guys (from Valentina) tested an application under a
limited user account under Windows XP ? I did and it doesn't work. Can
somebody do the same test and confirm the problem ? Or tell if there is no
problem at all ? 

Shall I zip my test folder in order to facilitate the test ? (just download,
unzip and run ?)

Pierre Rossel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joakim Schramm
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 10:38 AM
>
> Pierre,
> The problem is with XP (and Vista I think) that you can't put 
> the files just
> anywere if a limited user should be able to use them with read/write
> capabilities. As an example, as limited user can't write under Program
> Files, files installed by Admin. I am not 100% sure about the 
> rules, but I
> think the correct place to put db files being accesable 
> read/write to both
> Admin and Limited is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\Company\etc. or ..\All users\Shared 
> Documents\Company\etc. There is
> also the Common Files dir, but I am not sure of the status of 
> this location
> but think it's a "left over" from the Win 95/98 days and 
> mostly hang around
> for backward compability reasons. I wont swore on this though.
> 
> Actually I brought this to focus in another tread started 
> this morning, as I
> am about to release a program using Valentina for the first 
> time. The whole
> thing that lead me to Valentina was actually this issue, some 
> of my users
> started to complain that "suddenly" their program didn't work 
> anymore as
> they got write permission errors. Many of my users are women actaully,
> typically installed on the husbands computer. So what happens? Husband
> installs the program and all works fine, for a while. Then 
> one day husband
> sits infron of computer and wife need to quickly access my 
> program and do so
> from husbands Admin account, fine. Next time she run my 
> program from her own
> account and BOM! As she run in Admin it wrote a file and it 
> changed its
> rights and now program only runs from Admin.
> 
> Regards,
> Joakim