Re: SOLVED: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-06-16 Thread Vince Teachout
Yeah, I just found out about this today, in the same google search.  "It's since been fixed."  :-( I don't think it was just the free version, though. On 06/16/21 4:34 PM, Eric Selje wrote: On that note, here's a reminder that if the product is free, then your data is the product: https://www

Re: SOLVED: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-06-16 Thread Eric Selje
On that note, here's a reminder that if the product is free, then your data is the product: https://www.wizcase.com/antivirus/avg/ (TL;DR: They were selling your browsing data) Eric On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 2:15 PM Vince Teachout wrote: > A few months back I asked for help trying to figure out

SOLVED: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-06-16 Thread Vince Teachout
A few months back I asked for help trying to figure out why my program would not let me save to my desktop (Original post below). I got a lot of suggestions, and tried a lot of things, but ultimately was unable to figure it out. A while ago, I did another Google out of boredom, and saw a sugge

RE: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-31 Thread Tracy Pearson
Is the EXE somehow running in a sandbox, or compatibility mode? Tracy -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Vince Teachout Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 12:43 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving

Re: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-31 Thread Vince Teachout
Thanks, Alan.  I checked it out, but that isn't the problem. :-( On 03/31/21 7:03 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: Maybe try snagging Doug Hennig's specialfolders.prg from here: https://doughennig.blogspot.com/2007/01/finding-paths-for-special-folders.html Then see what specialfolders("desktop") return

Re: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-31 Thread Alan Bourke
Maybe try snagging Doug Hennig's specialfolders.prg from here: https://doughennig.blogspot.com/2007/01/finding-paths-for-special-folders.html Then see what specialfolders("desktop") returns in case Windows is up to some sort of shenanigans. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-30 Thread Vince Teachout
Nope, none of the below apply.  Shorcut is the default, and the behavior is the same if I navigate the path from c to users to vinny to desktop. vinny is well under 8.3.  My full path for the TO is a variable (same as yours, actually) with the value: "C:\USERS\VINNY\DESKTOP\MYTEST.PDF " On

Re: Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:08 AM Vince Teachout wrote: > Granted, it's a short drive, but > I know the feeling. I can walk from here ;) > This is making me nuts. I've paraphrased and simplified the problem to > the gist of it: > > My program does COPY FILE (cInputFile) to (cOutputFile).

Bizarre Desktop write problem driving me mad

2021-03-30 Thread Vince Teachout
Granted, it's a short drive, but This is making me nuts.  I've paraphrased and simplified the problem to the gist of it: My program does COPY FILE (cInputFile) to (cOutputFile).  This works great. EXCEPT if the output file is on my desktop, then I get the message: "Cannot create file c:\