Old 01-17-2007, 02:48 AM   #1
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Hi all,

Currently I am running Vista and while I have decided to install FlashFXP I am aware of only one problem which I thought I would let the dev team know about. Might be a problem with the config I am running but its all the defaults.

I have installed FFXP with default settings as well and for all users so all the application files and queue's etc are located in c:\program files\flashfxp\

The only problem I have run into at this stage is with the queues. If I connect to a site, queue up a number of files then save the queue, all works ok. The problem is when you load a queue saved under Vista. It doesn't show up with any contents and the file is not listed a 0bytes. If I look at it under notepad etc, it is simply blank.

I would like to know if anyone else can confirm this. I am going to uninstall it and try installing it for the current user to see if saving queue files to the users profile directory makes a difference.

Any thing you need to know please let me know.
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Old 01-17-2007, 02:33 PM   #2
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I'm not quite sure what's going on there. Everything seems to be working fine on my Vista test machine.
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Old 01-18-2007, 04:57 AM   #3
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Hi Bigstar,

Hope you had a good christmas/new year. I have done a few more things which I hope can shed some light on the problem I am seeing.

1. Uninstalled FFXP and re-installed into the user profile directory rather than to the shared location of c:\Program Files\FlashFXP. No errors.

2. Tried to load an old queue that was previously saved on Windows XP. Works. (see free_0.fqf)

3. Tried to overwrite the above queue. File saves as 0k in the FFXP profile directory. I have attached that (free_1.fqf) Open that and its blank.

4. Tried saving as a different name. Saves a 0k file.

5. Saved file to a different drive altogether. Same result, 0k file.

5. I have attached a copy of the permissions (perm.png) for the profile dir (C:\Users\christopher\AppData\Roaming\FlashFXP\3) which shows I have full rights to the dir.

So, having done all this I am stumped. If yours is working on Vista and mine isn't I can't see what could possibly be wrong. I am running Vista Ultimate. Don't know if that has anything to do with it. I have changed the security policy under Vista for the UAC so its not quite so annoying. Perhaps this is it?

Please let me know if you need anything else.

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Old 01-18-2007, 06:13 AM   #4
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Vista redirects all files, which were written outside of users home-directory, to a special dir, that is called "VirtualStore" (%appdata%\VirtualStore), because filewritting outside of usersdir is not allowed to restricted users. Registry-entries, that were written to HKLM-Tree are redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
That is a temp. mechanism from microsoft to ensure, that "non-vista-compatible"-applications are working further on. But ms intends to disable it at any time...

I think, you have two options now:
1. "Rerun" flashfxp-setup and select, that flashfxp should store your settings in your users %appdata%-dir
2. Perform your edits in %appdata%\VirtualStore-directory (or was it local-settings-dir? dont know...)

http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/je.../12/19/86.aspx
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Old 01-21-2007, 04:06 AM   #5
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Hi All,

Still no progress on this after re-installing a number of times trying to get FFXP to save queue files. I hope Bigstar you can give me a tip on how you managed to install it without having this same problem. Is your installation per-user or for all users?

Thanks...
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Old 01-23-2007, 05:08 AM   #6
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By golly I think I have figured it out. It seems that when I go to save a queue in FFXP it defaults to the option of "Save Selection" rather than "FlashFXP Queue File". Pic attached. Both are fqf but there is a big difference somewhere.

Don't know if anyone see's the same thing by default but I have installed FFXP under Vista now some 10 times in order to get this working.

So, if you use the Save Selection, chances are you will end up with a 0k queue file. I hope someone else can confirm this as a bug. No offense Bigstar...

PS. I also don't think the email notification from this board is working either..?
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Old 01-29-2007, 02:24 AM   #7
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thanks cjr, we'll look into it. i'll also check on email notification.
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