Saving Files to Desktop When Opening

Graveflower · Post by **Graveflower** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:09 pm

Excuse my noobishness, but...

Whenever opening ZSNES, it saves four files on to my desktop: zfont, zmovie.cfg, zinput.cfg, zsnesw.cfg

I'm guessing this is normal, but how do I change the target folder where these would be?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:12 pm

Those files are produced in the same folder that zsnesw.exe is in.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:46 am

i would put zsnes somewhere else, like my documents, and put a shortcut on your desktop

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:33 am

or gee, create, I dunno, a EMULATOR\ZSNES folder, or put a ZSNES folder in with Program Files like all the other installed programs.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:15 am

assuming he's not on vista

the UAC is very strict about programs writing into the program files, unless you wanted run zsnes with admin priveleges and have to allow it every time you wanted to run it.

but that's only with vista

yes, this guy's not the brightest tool in the box, but my suggestion was perfectly legitimate

naturally, this would happen the one time i try to be helpful

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 5:58 am

It's more of a complex permissions problem than UAC. If ZSNES is in a folder without Write/Modify Permissions for the Users Group (or User), files will not be created if ZSNES was executed as if the folder is Read Only. There is a exception if ZSNES (or any program) needs to write/modify to Program Files, "ProgramData" or Windows ("Protected" folders). Vista will have the files virtually saved but actually save into %AppData%\Local\VirualStore\Microsoft\<Protected Folder>. Vista will do its best to keep the files virtually present, unless the real files are in the real directory, then things will conflict. UAC only comes in to elevate a user with full administrator permissions and be able to perform administrative tasks.

Anyway, if this guy hasn't done that much in messing with admin rights, he will be able to just run and use ZSNES in the Program Files folder with no issues. But since nothing will ever go perfectly, it would be best to copy ZSNES into a separate folder (unless you like messy folders) in his My Documents/Profile folder.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:05 am

interesting. i just know that NWN needs admin priveleges, and when i try to make changes to *.ini files, after changing the read/write permissions, it never goes. the *.ini's are in a program files folder. i've had to move them out to my desktop, make my changes, and move them back in.

still, my explanation of why program files isn't necessarily the best place aside, my initial suggestion will work.