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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows |
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Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:14:30 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
>
> The read only check box is not marked so chmod won't help me here. My
> installer module adds a line to the dir file pointing to a new folder created
> inside c:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-*. I managed to manually change the read
> only status of the file "dir" by right clicking on "dir" and choosing
> "Properties", then clicking on "Security" and clicking on Users
> (DAVINPEARSON/Users) and clicking on the box: allow full control.
OK, so your problem is indeed with the NT security settings of
"Program Files". I can only reiterate my suggestion not to install
programs there, if they need to write to their installation directory.
> > One thing I can add to what I already said: the usual way of modifying
> > the 'dir' file is by running the 'install-info' utility. Not sure if
> > doing so will solve your problem, but manually updating 'dir' is not a
> > good idea, either.
>
> What's wrong with programmatically changing the contents of the "dir" file?
Nothing, except that it's tricky, and install-info already does all
the tricks for you.
> Do you think that I should use the "install-info" utility to patch the "dir"
> file?
That's my recommendation, yes.
> Do other flavours of GNU/Linux use the /media folder to access the windows
> hard drives of your computer?
Sorry, I have no idea.
- Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/12
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/12
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/06/13
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/13
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Yuri Khan, 2016/06/14
- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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- Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows, Davin Pearson, 2016/06/14