[RESOLVED] Installing files per user

[SirDrinksalot]

Hi there,

I am currently trying to rebuild an application that was initially designed for use on desktop PCs to be run over an RDC connection for multiple users. Part of the redesign includes moving the location of certain files which are created / edited by the user during the application lifetime (before they were in a single location but this will no longer suffice).

Anyway, my plan was to have the installer place the files into the users application data directory, and this works fine for the initial installation. However, when a new user logs into the system and runs the application, I need it to create the necessary files / folders under the relevant user application directory. Can the deployment project be configured to do this or am i going to have to write some code so on startup it checks for the existence of the files / folders and, if missing, creates them?

Many thx

Dan

[SirDrinksalot]

OK so I ended up creating files in the common data directory and then including a function on startup to check for existence of the folders under the application data directory, if nothing was found copy from a to b, simple enough i guesss...

[dilettante]

The usual practice is to have the program check for the application's per-user data folder upon startup. If not found, create the desired folder structure and copy in an initial set of files that the Installer placed into an application folder under CommonAppData or even the Program Files folder.

This sounds like what you ended up doing anyway.