Ian Having been convinced by Barrie (and my daughter to boot) to store data files on a Vista PC in the Document folder it may add to confusion to mention store under Users on Vista. It took me a little while to realise the Document folder is in fact stored under C:\Users\Owner. I'm extremely pleased to see you may be erring on the side of caution and not taking on board WinBMD changes purely because I would think only a handful of volunteers have difficulty in finding the location of their WinBMD files. Once convinced of the merit of storing files in Document folder I simply created a subfolder named WinBMD. Allan Raymond ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Brooke" <ianbrooke@hotmail.com> To: <freebmd-syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 7:39 PM Subject: Re: re Windows Wish List I do tend to agree with most of these views. It seems to me to be very simple for those users that have trouble locating their files to create a new folder someplace they can find it, for example under My Documents, or under Users on Vista, and just tell WinBMD to use that folder. I can't really see anyone having serious problems doing that and it saves a lot of potentially risky code for WinBMD to try to do it. Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nowl" <owl.news@zen.co.uk> To: <FreeBMD-Syndicates@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:52 AM Subject: Re: re Windows Wish List > Archer Barrie wrote on Wed, 4 Feb 2009: > >>I think you have a good point, although one shouldn't assume that all >>existing users know where their output files are! Users can transcribe >>without this knowledge, until the day when they need to do something >>special with the file ... and then its location may be problematic. >> > Thanks for the reply, Barrie, and yes, I see what you mean. . . although > it's easy enough to check, since a custom path will be shown in brackets > after Define Save Path in the File menu. If there's nothing there, the > default path is being used (or the VirtualStore under Vista). And > there's always Search :-) > >>I think the issue of moving files was sparked by Keith Simpson's mail of >>28th Jan in which he described instructions to change the default path >>for transcribers who were having problems because of the current >>location. I presume it was in response to this that Ian made his >>proposal to move files in his mail later the same day. >> > I see. . . I didn't get Keith's original post -- the lists seem rather > flakey lately, I often receive responses to an original message that > never arrives! Having read it now, I wholeheartedly agree. I do > recommend new volunteers change the default Save Path and suggest > creating a subfolder in (My) Documents. > > I've posted previously on why I think the current default output folder > location needs to be changed, and (sorry Allan!) agree that a subfolder > of (My) Documents would be the best place for it -- easy to find for new > users, conforming to standard practice and solving the permissions > problems under Vista. > > For fresh installs, either by new users or existing volunteers switching > to a new computer, I think this would be a great improvement. But if > I've followed Ian correctly, there could be huge difficulties with > existing WinBMD installations, in both determining the current output > path and in where to put the new default folder. > > What I'm asking is, Is it really worth Ian's time and effort to struggle > to make this a global change when for a large proportion of upgraders it > wouldn't be necessary (and could also be quite annoying)? > >>The only reason I can see for moving files as a result of an upgrade >>would be because WinBMD is in a better position to do it than users (who >>may have difficulty finding them). Against this we have the complication >>of users, who *did* know where their files were, forgetting (or not >>realising) they had been moved. > > It could well be that I misunderstood the discussion, but it seemed to > be accepted that moving existing files was desirable. I strongly > disagree on that one :-) and could see it causing more problems than it > solved. >> >>Moving files to the same location shouldn't be a problem. The software >>would notice and do nothing. >> > Ah, that's reassuring, thanks, Barrie. > > -- > Nowl > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEBMD-SYNDICATES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message