I have a Delphi 6 application that, like most Windows applications, reads/writes data to the user's "local application data" folder. I use the code below to determine that folder. Up until now, tha...

Got an ASP.NET site which I wish to perform an SVN info call from. My understanding is this error message appears when a user hasn't yet done their basic setup to use SVN. Specifically there is a...

I am somewhat new to Windows 7. I am running a foreign language version of Windows 7 (not sure if this matters or not). Anyways, when I use cmd to run a command prompt environment and C:\Use...

I have a Visual Basic 6.0 application that I want to install for All Users, for example, the setting are held in a single spot regardless who logs into the computer. I have the following code to lo...

I have an application which needs to create its settings directory inside the user's %APPDATA% directory. To do this it uses code similar to the following: std::string appDataBase = getenv("APPDAT...

On my system, %AppData% leads to ApplicationData which is C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming But there is also C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local And for some more confusion D:\Users\<USER&...

I'm trying to make my program save its state in the location set by %APPDATA% when the user is using Windows. However, System.getProperty("temp.dir"); does not return that. How do I get the value o...

I know that commonappdata (All Users) can hold system-wide application settings, but under Vista/7 non-elevated users can't write to that directory. Is there a folder which is shared among users a...

We are migrating our APP to Win7. The program generates log files to help us support and also saves a number of dictionary files and settings files that are useful for the user though the user will...

I am looking for the environment variable for AppData in NSIS. I need to copy fils to the AppData directory in my installation.

When I uninstall my app with my Inno Setup uninstaller, the runtime files created in the user's AppData folder remain. Is it possible to remove them?

I've got an SQL Server CE database in a project that I wan't to store somewhere in the %AppData% directory. However I can't find a way to make a reference to the Application Data path in the connec...

I can't find a correct way to get the environment variable for the appdata path in python. The problem is that my user name includes special characters (the german ae and ue). I made a workaround ...

When creating an application that will be targeted to many versions of Windows what is the best practice to determine where application specific data should be stored. Specifically: Application Sp...

I'm currently storing my sqlite db file in the App_Data folder as per ASP.NET best pattern and practices. Currently I'm using the following in the webconfig: <connectionStrings> <add n...

I've recently discovered the IsolatedStorage facilities in .net, and I'm wondering when I should use them for my application data versus when I should use (e.g.) Application.LocalUserAppDataPath. ...