0 [Band-in-a-Box] Re: BIAB Windows 7 & File Virtualisation

 

--- In Band-in-a-Box@yahoogroups.com, "akmbirch" <akmbirch@...> wrote:
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> Guys
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> I just thought I'd alert all of you users of Windows 7 to a potential issue you may come across with BIAB.
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> As you know by default BIAB installs itself, program and files into
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> C:\bb
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> Many users choose to install it as:
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> C:\Program Files (x86)\bb
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> The problem is that Windows 7 does not expect users to be writing "data/document files" into the program files area. If a legacy application such as BIAB attempts to write to the Program Files directory, the OS silently redirects that operation to the user-specific folder where the user has full access: %localappdata%\VirtualStore
>
> Microsoft calls it File Registry Redirection (VirtualStore) or File Virtualisation here's a video to explain it:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbv7PcPxDb8
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> So if you find you cannot find your files or your files appear to be locked it's likely they have been put in the VirtualStore. If you use windows Explorer, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\bb\Sub-Directory
> and then click the button 'compatability files' you should find your files.
>
> A work around is to run BIAB as an administrator rather than as a user, or move the biab folder so that it is not under program files, or separate out all the data files from the program files,or turn off User Account Control.
>
> Hopefully PG Music's future windows releases will separate things out, like a standard windows program, putting program files in programs and data files in user data areas.
>

Alisdair, thanks for posting about this. I had this exact problem.

I kept getting a number of problems and in the end exasperated I decided to install it in Windows Virtual PC. It works much better
that way and all the issues go away!!!! Check it out:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/

Mark

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