Re: retreiving data -NTFS system

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Posted by Mark on June 14, 2007 at 16:58:53:

In Reply to: retreiving data -NTFS system posted by Vir on June 14, 2007 at 15:59:32:

: my pc had crashed, bought a new pc w/XPpro. It came with NTFS file system. I installed fundmanager v7.8, updated the DLL files under admin control acct. Then I used a limited acct to use fundmgr. when I tried to retreive prices from yahoo/msn etc, it gives the following message:

: Could not create output log file ‘c:\Program Files\Fund Manager\intlog.txt’, check directory specifications in registry key: ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Fund Manager\CurrentVersion\directory location’

: is this problem due to using the limited acct instead of the admin acct in the NTFS file system. previously, my pc had FAT32 file system with XPpro. please suggest a solution. thanks.

Hi Vir,

This problem is because of the limited permissions, not because of the file system (NTFS/FAT32). In the 7.x versions the temporary log files used by Fund Manager were written into the folder where you installed Fund Manager, so the user needed to have access to write into whatever folder where it was installed in. As a work-around, you could install 7.x somewhere besides c:\Program Files so that the limited user would be able to write to that folder.

The 8.x versions no longer write these files to the folder where you installed FM. Now, the log files are stored in a per-user application data folder, so any user can write to them, no matter where FM is installed. So, another solution would be to upgrade to 8.x.

Thanks,
Mark
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