Re: Mulberry and Windows 7 Pro 64

--On Thursday, July 12, 2012 8:57 PM -0400 John Klensin 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> When one uses "view parts", its API apparently interacts with
> Windoz to put the file in one place but tells the application to
> open it in another.

That's the "data redirection" that Windows introduced in Vista. I haven't 
had to fight with it on Vista because I'm running Mulberry from a directory 
not in the Program Files tree. (I have it on another partition.)

Here's some info about it:

<http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/developers/archive/2009/08/04/user-account-control-data-redirection.aspx>

I think this arises from two warring philosophies: Mulberry wants to keep 
everything in one directory (eg. on a Flash drive or a portable USB hard 
drive), including its temporary files, so that you can pick up the entire 
installation and run it from any machine. (Except that it keeps 
configuration in the registry by default, making that impossible. But you 
can save even that to a text file to be loaded from the single directory.) 
The Windows philosophy is to put the application in a write-protected area 
(under Program Files) and keep all configuration and temporary files in the 
user's writable profile (eg. \Users\username). (Linux encourages the same 
style.) This is more robust against malware because the malware can't alter 
your programs, only your data. Mozilla apps can be installed either way, 
with the former style called a "portable installation".