How to write to the common Application Data folder? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 6 months ago. Active 8 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 32k times. Am I storing the file in the wrong location? Am I doing it in the incorrect manner? Improve this question. Peter Mortensen 29k 21 21 gold badges 97 97 silver badges bronze badges.
AngryHacker AngryHacker A question and two answers that could be of interest — Steve. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. See this other question for some useful links How Microsoft thinks it should be done.
Improve this answer. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Dabblernl Dabblernl Here's a nice VB6 article by Karl Peterson on the subject of where to store settings. And this VB6 question — MarkJ.
ProgramData doesn't have "shared" anything access. CommonAppData is perfectly fine and is recommended and preferred by Microsoft for, well, common app data - as the name suggests. I believe I may have found the fault. Testing so far is OK. The comment from Roryman on hard coded paths is spot on. This XML file acts like a connection string.
It tells the client the name of the database server, database and stipulates credentials to use to connect to the database. I have not read any guildlines to handling hard coded paths in App-V sequencing guide so I am not sure how to handle these yet.
What I have done is this:. I need to fully test the application but it seems to get around the issue I was experiencing. Is this an acceptable workaround or I am creating a problem by doing this? Any guidance would be great. I guess what is throwing me is that I was expecting the APP-V client to trap all the calls to access the file system and handle e. So even if there was a hardcoded path the application would read the path, try to access it, and then APP-V would intercept the call and send it to the VFS.
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If you have any sequencing recipes to share, please do so in the App-V Sequencing Recipes forum. Sign in to vote. Any help would be great. Thanks, Nathan NSutton. Thursday, April 26, AM. In some cases applications that have hard-coded paths won't work unless the paths are corrected.
The application may be validating the location of the files against the XML file. If you do a ProcMon you may be able to see where the calls for the files are going. Tuesday, May 1, AM. Parker 0. There are some codes that users can type into the command prompt, and they would be able to uninstall the commonappdata.
For example, if they want to remove the package, then just type. If the user wants to remove the configuration and data files of commonappdata, then they need to run the following code on the Command Prompt:. It depends on you that are you willing to kick-out the data or you want to remove the configuration data or data files, along with the dependencies, then the following code is most likely to work for you:.
To uninstall commonappdata on mac because anytime we need space or only want to remove from pc due to some viruses and also many problems which are needed to remove or uninstall from pc. For uninstalling commonappdata on the mac so as I told you that there is a simple method to uninstall apps on mac. As there are installed some apps on your Mac and now you want to remove or uninstall from your pc successfully and want to install some other apps on my mac so follow my these steps to uninstall commonappdata on mac.
In the image, there is a commonappdata app on your mac dashboard and now we have to uninstall it from our mac we will uninstall this app and will remove it in of mac now double-click-on-app showing in the image.
Now you double-clicked on the app mac will ask that are you sure to uninstall commonappdata click on the Delete button so go to Trash of mac to uninstall completely from mac. Showing in image trash bin click on trash bin and go inside there will be commonappdata which we had to delete before so have to uninstall completely from mac.
Not right-click on trash to remove all data or app which we had uninstalled before seeing in the image. Click on Empty Trash the whole data which is in the trash will auto remove successfully. Now we uninstalled commonappdata on the mac so as you see that how to uninstall or remove any app on the mac so if you liked this so share once.
I described only a simple method of uninstalling commonappdata on mac. This method more people are using but some people take it is too hard uninstalling in mac but in this step, anyone can understand this simple method.
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