From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e920b1a4-eb5e-4ce4-99b6-b45948d9829f@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1431.1465826221.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 1:57:03 AM UTC+12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:39:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Davin Pearson <davin dot pearson at gmail dot com>
> > > Is that file really a read-only file? Does its Properties tab in
> > > Explorer show the Read-only attribute set? If not, chmod won't help
> > > you, and your problem is probably due to the fact that your user is
> > > denied access to "Program Files" and everything under it. In that
> > > case, the solution is not to install Emacs under "C:\Program Files",
> > > but elsewhere, preferably on disk D.
> You didn't reply to any of the questions I asked. You also didn't
> tell enough about your installer module. So it's hard to help you
> more.
The read only check box is not marked so chmod won't help me here. My installer module adds a line to the dir file pointing to a new folder created inside c:/Program Files (x86)/emacs-*. I managed to manually change the read only status of the file "dir" by right clicking on "dir" and choosing "Properties", then clicking on "Security" and clicking on Users (DAVINPEARSON/Users) and clicking on the box: allow full control.
> One thing I can add to what I already said: the usual way of modifying
> the 'dir' file is by running the 'install-info' utility. Not sure if
> doing so will solve your problem, but manually updating 'dir' is not a
> good idea, either.
What's wrong with programmatically changing the contents of the "dir" file?
Do you think that I should use the "install-info" utility to patch the "dir" file?
Do other flavours of GNU/Linux use the /media folder to access the windows hard drives of your computer? Either way, the installer module could prompt the user for the location of the c:\ drive.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-13 1:26 Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows Davin Pearson
2016-06-13 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1408.1465789707.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-13 7:39 ` Davin Pearson
2016-06-13 8:00 ` Yuri Khan
2016-06-13 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1431.1465826221.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-14 0:14 ` Davin Pearson [this message]
2016-06-14 6:34 ` Yuri Khan
2016-06-14 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1493.1465917237.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-15 0:34 ` Davin Pearson
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