Opened 10 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#9861 closed Bug report (duplicate)
Don't touch APPDATA, let user to use this as a portable application
Reported by: | wlclsl37 | Owned by: | developer |
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Priority: | high | Component: | FileZilla Server |
Keywords: | portable | Cc: | |
Component version: | Operating system type: | Windows | |
Operating system version: | 7 |
Description
https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34184&sid=DO_NOT_TRACK_ME
Please don't touch APPDATA!
I use "FZ Server" like a portable apps.
FileZilla Server Interface.exe
FileZilla Server Interface.xml
FileZilla Server.exe
FileZilla Server.xml
Your new version break it.
If was already exist, then don't make a new folder/file to APPDATA.
Please reconsider.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 8 years ago
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Resolution: | → duplicate |
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Status: | new → closed |
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Triage suggestion
Using FileZilla Server
0.9.60
I can confirm this behavior:FileZilla Server Interface.xml
in%appdata%\Roaming\FileZilla Server
.%appdata%
it will look for the same file in the same directory as the FileZilla Server Interface executable.<Item name="User Sorting">
element to%appdata%\Roaming\FileZilla Server\FileZilla Server Interface.xml
. Only if the server settings changed, the last-used server settings will also be written to the%appdata%
file.In addition to harming possible portability, this causes an unfortunate behavior that the last-used server settings will be read and used on the first portable run but will be ignored on all subsequent runs because the XML file in
%appdata%
is favored over the local settings and only contains the "User Sorting" setting.There are several possible ways to accommodate this feature request, if the developers would like to: