Finding a writeable folder (FileSystemLayerImpl)

[AshMcConnell]

Hi Folks,

I've started an alpha of my game ( http://onlineracingchampionship.com ) and I'm getting some error reports of it crashing because it can't write log and configuration files on Windows 7. If the user runs as admin it successfully writes into the c:\program files (x86)\ORC folder (rather than the Documents\OnlineRacingChampionship folder on Windows 8.1 (and some Windows 7 installs).

I am using Ogre's FileSystemLayerImpl that is used in the Samples, like so: -

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FileSystemLayerImpl *fs = new FileSystemLayerImpl("OnlineRacingChampionship");
return fs->getWritablePath(inPath);

Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas what could be causing it?

Thanks for your help
All the best,
Ash

[Kojack]

I can't find FileSystemLayerImpl, only FileSystemLayer, which should use SHGetFolderPathW with CSIDL_PERSONAL to get a valid writable directory. Is the Impl version from a different platform?

[AshMcConnell]

I can't find FileSystemLayerImpl, only FileSystemLayer, which should use SHGetFolderPathW with CSIDL_PERSONAL to get a valid writable directory. Is the Impl version from a different platform?

I seem to have taken that file from a previous version of Ogre. Not sure why I did that to be honest , perhaps to reduce dependencies to my Utils library. So in summary, I'm an idiot - I'll go look at the latest version and hopefully that will work