Re: Check out rights under Vista / Windows 7

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:03, Pierre Viossat
<pierre.viossat_at_esi-group.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I meet a problem while trying to check out a working copy in the ‘Program
> files’ folder of Windows 7 (same under Vista).

And every other Windows OS version if you're not logged in as an admin.

> This is a problem of rights (because it is required to have administrator
> rights) and TSVN outputs the message ‘folder not empty’ which is not correct
> as the target folder has not been created yet. But no matter for this
> message.
>
>
>
> I understand the problem, but when I try to create a folder ‘by hand’
> (within Windows explorer), a Windows dialog pops up to ask for
> administrative rights.
>
>
>
> So it is perhaps more likely a development tip rather than a bug, but is it
> planned to find how to ask Windows for admin rights while checking (and I
> suppose updating…) operations ?

There actually is a way to make this work, but I won't tell you.
Because putting a working copy in the program files folder is maybe
the worst location ever (ok, maybe the windows system folder would be
worse) for a working copy.
Seriously: put your working copy somewhere else (there's a 'documents'
folder which you might want to use instead).

The 'program files' folder is meant to get modified *only* during a
setup routine, and only if the setup application has elevated
privileges.
Modifying anything in that folder in any other situation should (and
now actually does) not work.

Stefan

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