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Miguel Gimenez wrote:
> How can I append the subfolders if I can't write to 
> CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA? I was planning to do my own installer, who should 
> create the "Company Name\Product Name\Version" folder tree, but now I'm 
> in doubt if it can be done. Should the installer be executed by the 
> administrator, or there is another trick?
> 
> Regards
> Miguel Gimenez

Even though while googling I found several references to write 
permission issues with CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA I was unable to reproduce 
any problems when writing to this folder (both on Vista and XP I logged 
in as a limited user and had no problems creating folders and writing 
files in CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA).

Neverteless, to be absolutely sure this isn't going to be an issue I 
also modified my installer script (which requires admin priviliges since 
I need to write to \program files anyway) to modify the NTFS ACL (access 
control list) of the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA subfolder so that everyone 
always has full read/write access to this subfolder. This should take 
care of any problems that otherwise still might arise. Better safe than 
sorry.

Kris