Win OS reinstall looses Program files including logs - GCM file found

[David Carlson]

On 2/1/2015 2:49 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Feb 1, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Mark Wigmore <mawigmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 February 2015 at 16:38, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 February 2015 at 16:17, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Colin,
>>>>
>>>> You have raised a good point.  What does GnuCash default to before there
>>>> is a preference defined?  Is that mentioned somewhere in the
>>> documentation?
>>>
>> In the desktop shortcut Properties, you can specify the default folder in
>> the 'Start In' field. It should be possible to set this in the installer.
>> The path to the Documents folder, for example, is stored in
>> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders" under "Personal". You need registry access though. Some discussion
>> of finding these paths here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3492920/is-there-a-system-defined-environment-variable-for-documents-directory
>>
>> Hope this helps,
> Yup. That’s a monumental fail on our part. The setup is set to start in program files. I’ll fix that immediately so that it will go to the Documents folder. Our Inno Setup has a special key for just that purpose.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
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I bet that will reduce traffic in the user list, but I still think new
users will first look in the Getting Started section of
the Help Manual when they are confused.

David C