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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / How can I see my projects in Windows 7?

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Dr Tank
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Posted: 22nd May 2011 18:46
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I've made a project and want to be able to put some media into it.

When i go to save or load in DBP, i can see my projects inside "projects", although it curiously has a little padlock on it. However, when i go there in Windows Explorer, i can only see the example projects.

I suspect this is something to do with Windows 7 being characteristically hateful. How do i fix it?
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Dr Tank
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Posted: 22nd May 2011 19:08
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I found a workaround. I saved all my stuff in a new folder in my documents. Seems i am able to see that stuff through windows explorer.

I hate windows 7 more every day! Hopefully some coding will calm me down!
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SolusHunter
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Posted: 22nd May 2011 23:02
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Program Files is a protected folder in Windows 7. Applications are no longer supposed to save user files there - hence the padlock.

I got around this by installing DBPro on a different drive.

DarkBasic Pro 7.7 U77RC7
Windows 7 x64
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Dr Tank
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Posted: 23rd May 2011 04:07
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Good idea. I might do that. Ta.
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DVader
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Posted: 23rd May 2011 14:30
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Win 7 protection. I made a new folder on my C drive and called it DB projects. I make all new projects there rather than the program files one. Windows 7 is a pain for it. Some programs will even save things into directories, but they do not show up when you look within windows, but do when you look via the program. Most annoying!

http://s6.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=103081
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Doz
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Posted: 26th May 2011 07:20
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Just curious, as I've never seen this happen, are you the admin account on that pc?

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Dr Tank
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2011 00:26
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As far as I know I am an admin. I just stuck a plugin into DBP and it asked me to provide some sort of admin permission or something, which basically consisted of me pressing "ok", so i suppose i'm an admin.
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Indicium
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For the most part I love Windows 7, but stupid things like this just make it frustrating to work with.

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