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-Brading Software Message Board +--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions +---Topic: Multiuser installer on W2k & network drives started by titanium Posted by: titanium on Sep. 06 2002,10:38 Hi Magnus. Great product. Thanx. I've been using it for the past month, and thought I'd point out some big wins you could add/fix in the product with presumably little work required. Both 2.18 and 3.0 have only run correctly when run while logged into Windows 2k as the person that installed the software. I've examined the problem for you. Your installer only puts registry entries into the current user section at install time. The symptoms are a popup box that appears about 7 times when starting mp3ts as the other user. I can hack fix the problem by exporting the reg settings and importing them into my other user. I think the install destination folder also needs security permissions opened for all users to write, and the start menu entries need to be in all users rather than current (installers) menu only. Also, I store my mp3's on a networked server. Unfortunately mp3ts only shows local drives in the folder lists. So at the moment, I have to copy files from server to local to edit then back to the server. Adding network drive support should be relatively easy I guess. I think both these improvements would make a big difference to the product. I'd be completely happy to register once you have a version with those included. And of course, it's 95% the best product already. Thanx again. Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 06 2002,14:33 There are sadly other problems associated with storing registry keys in non-user areas of the registry (permission problems might occur). Also, it is good for all different users to get their own settings (saved templates and such), not affecting other users when changing them. About the network drives, you can access them if you just map them to a drive letter. UNC paths (the ones starting with "\\") are not supported though, just like you say. This is planned for a future version too, but it will sadly take quite some work to do (for several reasons internal to the code). Thanks for your suggestions and comments. end |