I actually agree with Rifter on this, although not so vehemently. I've always tried to keep my C: drive on a small partition (10 gig or so) containing just the OS, and I never install software there. Programs that insist on placing a lot of data there tend to fill it up, and I start to get "disk space low" errors even though I have scores of gigabytes free on other drives.

Has anyone actually been able to relocate the settings directories (Layouts, Flags, Reports, etc.) from \My Documents\ ?

I can relocate my database, but all these settings directories keep getting created every time I open DVD Profiler back up.

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No, at the moment, those directories always go into "My Documents".

There is no particular advantage to doing that as far as I can tell.  There was no reason to change that behavior from the old version in my opinion.  It would be more efficient if all the pieces/parts were in one set of directories, and you could decide where it was most appropriate on your system to put it.

In Vista programs should not write any data to Program Files folder, so separation of data and program is necessary.

I have moved Documents (it's not called My Documents anymore in Vista) to D drive so that backing up my data is more easy. C drive contains only programs.

Randy and others:

This, I think is one of those issues that you just have to accept. No matter what the programmer does, somebody is going to complain about it.

Skip

As I have stated some time ago in this thread:
In my case I have a sub-directory under "My Documents" for all film and television related stuff. I've moved the DVD profiler database to a directory there, but the original directories are still being auto-created under "My Documents".

It would be very nice to have the option, at installation and / or somewhere under options, to be able to control where the DVD Profiler files are stored (whether under "My Documents" or somewhere else, depending on backup or other needs).

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Yeah, twenty years ago when hard drives were small and still unreliable it made sense.  I always set my customers up with data files on a different drive for that reason.  But today, with huge drives that have an MTBF exceeding 100,000 hours (that's over 11 years of continuous operation, btw) there is no advantage to doing that.

You don't work with computers I think (hope). Anybody whot gets their daily food on the table working with these damn things knows that in 24/7 use moderns pata/sata drives last probably 3 years, usually less unfortunately.

If you think the latest drives only last 3 years, then you are not doing proper system maintenance on them and the software they contain.  I will grant that most people don't expect drives to last 11 years, but in most cases, they never get a chance to find out, because most people don't run the same computer for more than a couple of years.  They either get a whole new machine, or swap them out for larger capacity via upgrading.  I've got a rather large box of drives that are still perfectly good but considered obsolete for no other reason than they are considered too small for today's PC.  I use them in PCs I build for youngsters for their first PC.  In any case, the PC I am using to write this has two drives that are 4.5 and 5 years old, and one that is 2 years old, and it never gets shut off unless the power goes down.

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Randy and others:

This, I think is one of those issues that you just have to accept. No matter what the programmer does, somebody is going to complain about it.

Skip

Hey Skip...  are you involved with Invelos or the forum directly, or just saying this as a personal opinion?

I am a very organized individual, and I would like to store my DVD database in an organized subdirectory called Catalogs in my \My Documents\ directory.  I think the company should allow their customers the right to choose where they want to store this data...  If you want to abide by all these good practices of not having the files stored in \AppData\ or the \Program Files\ directories....  program your code to not allow users to enter that....