On 2022-07-04 5:49 pm, Aaron Hill wrote:
On 2022-07-04 5:07 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Dragging test.ly on the desktop to
the LilyPond icon on the desktop fails to produce the PDF output. Both
on Windows 10 and 11.
That is a different issue than the UAC drag-and-drop limitation that
was mentioned. Elevated permissions is almost certainly a red
herring, and something bigger is likely being masked.
I will take a look and see what is going on. Just give me some time,
as I will need to set up a test environment first.
As expected, elevation is masking an underlying issue.
The desktop shortcut is wrong. It specifies a start directory of
"C:\Users\Public\Desktop" which is coincidently the location in which
the shortcut is created. The public desktop is a special directory
transparently replicated to all individual user desktops. By design, it
does not offer write permission to users.
LilyPond is failing to compile because it attempts to create a temporary
file at that location. Open question: Why is LilyPond not using the
%TEMP% directory for such things?
Leaving the start directory field blank within the shortcut appears to
fix things.
-- Aaron Hill
