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I have a program developed in Opus 5.5 for XP that runs fine on Vista. It saves the users login name that they enter and their score in two text (txt) files. I know these are being saved as I can see the data when I login (last user) and when I view the previous users' score. These are saved in the C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp folder on my XP system. I used the var <SYSTEM_TEMP>usa_score.txt in the publication as the location for saving the file.

What I would like to know is where Windows Vista is saving the information? I've done a search for the text files (found others) but Vista's Windows Explorer search feature is unable to locate them.

Thanks

Leo

I share your frustration.

Here is a path to explore:
"C:\Users\theLogonUser\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\....and ProgramData or Program Files folders.

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I ran into some major obstacles bring my Opus pub work over from WinXP (something that I did wrong). So certain pubs break when it cannot find the old "C:\Documents and Settings\... " path (where I stored some docs to load). That is not the same issue as you raised for storing User data... but just thought I'd mention.

Good luck sorting it out.

Lars,

thanks for the info.

I finally located the files at:
C:\Users\theLogonUser\AppData\Local\Temp\user_name.txt
C:\Users\theLogonUser\AppData\Local\Temp\save_scores.txt

note: theLogonUser = my Vista logon name

I still couldn't locate them using the Vista's search feature so I must be doing something wrong.

Thanks again,

Leo

If you are logged user with admin type, you may browse other Users folders (after dialog prompt). It still may be that you will not get search to go there.

If the end-user ever does a C:\ disk cleanup, I would bet that files in that temp path could be removed. So care in choice of storage location. (other/admin users could also delete some).

Still discovering the wonders of Vista.