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#1 2010-08-09 13:09:34

ThePCKid
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"Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

In the Open/Save window, clicking "Owner" takes me to C:\Users\Owner\Documents instead of C:\Users\Owner.

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#2 2010-08-09 14:20:15

samurai768
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

Yeah.. me too. Are you on Window 7? I am.

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#3 2010-08-09 14:25:29

Wolfie1996
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

It does the same for me... it didn't do this on my old computer, which was Windows XP.

I am currently using Windows 7 Home Premium... I reckon it must be a Windows 7 based problem.  hmm


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#4 2010-08-09 14:32:17

AtomicBawm3
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

Happens to me to.  No idea why, but if you open a file and use something from it and your still in scratch, it changes to opening that file, but the default is documents for some reason.


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#5 2010-08-10 00:06:22

ThePCKid
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

samurai768 wrote:

Yeah.. me too. Are you on Window 7? I am.

I have Windows Vista SP2

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#6 2010-08-10 12:37:23

bigreader
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

Does that on Mac OSX 10.6.4 too...


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#7 2010-08-10 12:41:33

samurai768
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

I guess it happens to the newer versions of OS's...

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#8 2010-08-10 12:52:48

Wolfie1996
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

Hang on - are Vista and OSX laid out so that "Pictures/Music/Videos/etc" are not inside "Documents", but inside the "Owner" folder, which also contains "documents"?

If so, I think that could be where the problem lies. On Windows XP, the "Owner" file and the "Documents" file are merged, as "Owner's Documents", which contains "Pictures/Music/Videos/etc". Perhaps Scratch assumes that this is true for all OSes, and so links to the documents folder because of that?


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#9 2010-08-10 12:54:39

soupoftomato
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

I thought that was just a mistake in 1.4 cause it's been like that ever since I updated over a year ago.


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#10 2010-08-10 16:15:54

icecreamandcake
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

samurai768 wrote:

Yeah.. me too. Are you on Window 7? I am.

I have Windows 7, and it works fine on my computer. I think it's because I have Windows 7 Starter  tongue


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#11 2010-08-20 16:35:33

rdococ
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Registered: 2009-10-11
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Re: "Owner" link takes me to the wrong location

Wolfie1996 wrote:

Hang on - are Vista and OSX laid out so that "Pictures/Music/Videos/etc" are not inside "Documents", but inside the "Owner" folder, which also contains "documents"?

If so, I think that could be where the problem lies. On Windows XP, the "Owner" file and the "Documents" file are merged, as "Owner's Documents", which contains "Pictures/Music/Videos/etc". Perhaps Scratch assumes that this is true for all OSes, and so links to the documents folder because of that?

But there is still a "Owner" on my computer, I use Windows XP.

I think the problem lies as some OS's do not have "Owner", Scratch thinks it is true for all OS's, but you can still access the "Owner" if you have one by starting from 'C:\', all the way to 'C:\Documents and Settings\Owner'.

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