Hi Scott,
Thanks for your message.
so every windows users on a the workstation your omnis app copies the entire contents of AppData/Local from the server?
To clarify, Omnis copies everything from the firstruninstall folder into the user’s local app data. Once that’s copied over (and that’s a one-time thing, when the app is first launched in the user’s profile), our software then copies our libraries from the server into the local app data > omnis > startup folder. That process is a lot faster than the first copy, and they’re really the only components that change.
There’s no workaround for copying into the user’s app data folder, except to make the Program Files folder writable, and that’s frowned upon by Microsoft. If you make the program files > omnis folder writable, then you can do away with the firstruninstall folder, put everything in the Omnis application tree like we used to do prior to UAC, and you get the desired result – one set of libs for all users on a workstation. Not sure how that will work in Windows 10, we stopped doing that since Windows 7 was first introduced.
May I also ask which version of $O you are using?
We’re currently using Studio 8.1, but we’re working to update our clients to 10.1. We still have some clients using O$ 5.2, so it’s a bit of mix of versions right now. The same principles work on all versions.
Regards,
Paul.
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The doctor calmly responded, “Now, settle down. You’ll just have to be a little patient.”
Paul W. Mulroney
We Don't Do Simple Pty Ltd
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