I try to make a setup with Inno Setup for my program.
I have installed more file XML in the same folder as the .exe. The install work well, but when I run the program and modify the XML, the file is saved in another place, not the folder of the .exe and I can't find it. I think the file is stored in the PC because the program can open it without problems.
I also try to make the same setup with InstallAware Express 7 and it works well. Io I think it's not a problem in my exe but in Inno Setup.
Thanks
I think you are a victim of Windows File virtualization.
You probably install data files to Program Files folder.
That folder is not writable (unless your program runs with elevated privileges). If your program does not have application manifest, Windows considers it a legacy application that is not aware of its inability to write to Program Files and enables file virtualization. So, when your application tries to write the data/XML files, Windows redirects the write (and future reads) to a virtual store (C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore). The actual files in the Program Files are not modified.
It's difficult to answer, why it works with the InstallAware Express. If you tried it after the Inno Setup, the results can be affected by an existence of the file in the virtual store.
Anyway, the root cause is that your application tries to write the files in the Program Files. That's just wrong. No application should write to Program Files.
See also Application does not work when installed with Inno Setup.
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my application is required update its program files when it detects a new version on the server. The update mechanism is performed by the application itself, and it replaces old code with new code in the same directory. Which directory in linux is best suited for this? If there is a standard directory which has write access by default(analogous to %AppData%\Local for windows), I would like to know which one it is.
I have tried using /var/<my-app-name-here> and /opt/<my-app-name-here>, but none of these directories have write access by default. The only way I can use them update files in them is if the user uses sudo, so i would just like to avoid making those problems by just installing to a directory with write access to begin with.
I am using a tool called jpackage to make the .deb file which install the application.
I am writing a C# application (in Visual Studio on Windows) that will be run as a mono application on Unix (Raspbian aka Debian). I am a Unix noob, and though I have read (well, skimmed) the Linux Foundation Filesystem Hierarchy Standard I am still not completely clear on where I should put the files my application will need. I have:
The compiled C# application (app.exe). I thought I would put this in /usr/bin, except that the application is not run directly (it is invoked by "mono app.exe"), so maybe /usr/libexec is a better location?
Configuration files (there may be more than one) (app.1.conf, app.2.conf, etc.). If they are not user specific, I would think /etc/app (a directory, not a file) would be a good place for these. How about if they are user specific? /home/?
Log file (app.log). Seems that /var/log is the right place for this.
Thanks in advance for your input.
You should look at an already established Mono app for reference. For example let's take MonoDevelop:
The exe file goes to /usr/lib/{appnameinlowercase}/bin/ , but they place a launcher script in /usr/bin, named {appnameinlowercase}, for easy launch from the command line (this script just calls exec mono YourAppName.exe).
In .NET the config files need to be in the same directory as the executable file, so you could place them in /usr/lib/{appnameinlowercase}/bin, then later for convenience, put symlinks to them from /etc/{appnameinlowercase}/.
Correct, /var/log/{appnameinlowercase}/ should be fine.
This is a more general and noob question. I am developing a small application in Linux (Ubuntu, to be more precise) and at this point I have an executable, a shared library (.so), a configuration file (.conf) with some settings to be read by the application at the beginning, a data folder with images and other resources to be used during the application life-time (resources that can be also modified, deleted) and of course, I would need some file for logs and messages (right now I am using syslog).
So, my question is, where should each one of these be stored when the application is installed on a client's computer? What is the standard way of organizing all the application's files in Linux? On Windows everything would be found usually in the C:\Program Files\(App Folder) but it looks like on Linux things are more (or less) organized. Can you give me some advices on this matter?
Program data were historically stored in dot-prefixed folders in user's home directory. Modern Linux distributions tends to use ~/.config/program_name folder.
For all files that will not be modified after distibution follow Linux standard:
Ex: project dir: ABC
sub directories:
logs - keep log files
conf - keep configuration files here
bin - executable binaries here
traps - any trap mesg
then depend on what application we develop
Along with you can set level for starting your application from boot level if required.
I have created an .exe file for my application using inno script. Here I want to copy files from my setup folder to the AppData\Local\Temp directory. This is done using the below code.
Source: "WebcamApplet_1-0-0\*"; DestDir: "{localappdata}\Temp\WebcamApplet_1-0-0"
The problem I'm facing is that this code is only copying the files into the sysadmin ie C:\Users\Sysadmin\AppData\Local\Temp (Admin), I have to put it in C:\Users\Manesh\AppData\Local\Temp(User) for my application to work. How do I solve this problem.
Your application is badly designed if it expects files to be installed to the Temp folder. This folder is so named because the user or the system are free to delete all files contained therein at any time -- it is therefore suitable only for temporary use.
Additionally, there is no reasonable and reliable way for a per-machine installer (one running with PrivilegesRequired=admin, which is the default) to install files or settings to per-user folders, including the per-user temporary folder.
If you really really want to do this, you should set PrivilegesRequired=lowest to create a per-user installer -- but bear in mind that this will introduce other restrictions, such as limiting where your application can be installed to. Provided that you are running with lowest privileges, you can then use {%TEMP} to refer to the temporary path.
I have developed an application in Visual Basic.net. When I install this application to a ProgramFiles/[Appname] folder, and I create a file that is saved in the same folder (a settings file, created from in the application), the file is not visible, yet the application can still read it.
Where is this file saved?
On Windows Vista and higher, writing to the Program Files directory requires administrative privileges. Your file is probably being affected by virtualization (a redirection of the write operation) to the virtual store. You can find it (in Windows 7) in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore.
The obvious solution is not to try to save the settings in the wrong location in the first place. Your app should create a folder under %APPDATA%, and write it's settings there instead. This answer to a related question can provide some links that might help.