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Re: Amaya doesn't work for ordinary users

From: José Carlos Santos <jcsantos@fc.up.pt>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:42:12 +0100
Message-ID: <445229C4.1070200@fc.up.pt>
To: www-amaya@w3.org

On 26-04-2006 18:12, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:

>>> If you open a Command Prompt and type:
>>>
>>> echo %USERNAME%
>>> echo %USERPROFILE%
>>>
>>> What output do you get?
>>
>> I get
>>
>>    jcsantos
>>
>> and
>>
>>    C:\Documents and Settings\JC
>>
>> respectively.
> 
> That seems why Amaya doesn't start by default, because the default Amaya 
> profile directory:
> 
> %SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\amaya
> 
> would expand to:
> 
> C:\Documents and Settings\jcsantos\amaya
> 
> where "C:\Documents and Settings\jcsantos" doesn't really exists, I guess.

You found the reason for the problem. My congratulations. It is a bug
nonetheless, since it seems to affect Amaya alone and, furthermore, only
after version 9.0.

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos
Received on Friday, 28 April 2006 14:42:23 UTC

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