On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:44:20 +0000 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On 10/07/2012 12:55, Nick Treleaven wrote:
- A weird problem. Installing from cmd.exe doesn't overwrite
geany.glade (and maybe some other files) even though it appears to succeed. [...]
So, I did a search for geany.glade and discovered it in: c:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Geany\data
reading up on the VirtualStore path, I found it gets created when an application tries to write to a system path like Program Files, without the correct privileges. The application then silently receives the VirtualStore versions of files instead. [...]
Now that's a... a system designed without security, attempting to provide "compatibility" with weird tricks.
What's the situation with geany.exe in this case - doesn't it create even more problems? The newest win~1 versions are very sinsitive about replacing executables.