From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble saving to the emacs file dir under Windows
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:14:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83twgverah.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e920b1a4-eb5e-4ce4-99b6-b45948d9829f@googlegroups.com> (message from Davin Pearson on Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:14:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
>
> 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.
OK, so your problem is indeed with the NT security settings of
"Program Files". I can only reiterate my suggestion not to install
programs there, if they need to write to their installation directory.
> > 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?
Nothing, except that it's tricky, and install-info already does all
the tricks for you.
> Do you think that I should use the "install-info" utility to patch the "dir" file?
That's my recommendation, yes.
> Do other flavours of GNU/Linux use the /media folder to access the windows hard drives of your computer?
Sorry, I have no idea.
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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
2016-06-14 6:34 ` Yuri Khan
2016-06-14 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1493.1465917237.1216.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-15 0:34 ` Davin Pearson
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