Re: Lilypond not generating PDF

[Aaron Hill]

On 2022-07-04 8:03 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> We are getting to the nub of it. When you save the test.ly file you
> have to save it to C:\Users\<user>\Desktop not the default which is
> C:\Users\Public\Desktop. And make the start directory in the link
> C:\Users\<user>\Desktop [...]

Nothing should ever be defaulting to the public desktop.  Under normal 
operation, that folder will not have write permissions.  In fact, it 
should be a hidden folder and not normally visible.

Since users are able to remap their profile directory, a path like 
%userprofile%\Desktop would be better, however users with OneDrive 
enabled would find their desktop at %userprofile%\OneDrive\Desktop.


> (making it blank did not work for me)

When I drag-and-drop a file onto a shortcut without a start directory, 
the current directory is getting set based on the file being dragged.  I 
see the same behavior when dropping onto the target program itself.


-- Aaron Hill