I have installed Scratch on three computers used by four people. All of their projects are in the same Program Files/Scratch/Projects folder. This is a security problem, a multi-user usability problem, a data backup problem, and is probably one of the reasons some people can't run Scratch without Administrator privileges. I can't even configure Scratch to put the default Projects folder anywhere else. Really, this kind of stuff needs to be put in Users (Vista) or Documents and Settings (earlier Windows) or the user Home directory (Linux), with samples put in a Samples directory to which user projects are never saved.
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jamie wrote:
Can't you just make a folder called "Scratch Projects" in ~/ and save them there?
That was not what he was thinking Jamie because some people can't remember to save in a different folder.
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Buddy_ca111 wrote:
jamie wrote:
Can't you just make a folder called "Scratch Projects" in ~/ and save them there?
That was not what he was thinking Jamie because some people can't remember to save in a different folder.
Delete the projects folder, and replace it with an alias called "Projects" that points to whatever, and then Scratch will always show that folder instead.
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jamie wrote:
Delete the projects folder, and replace it with an alias called "Projects" that points to whatever, and then Scratch will always show that folder instead.
The reason the rest of us are griping about the save location is that we're running entire labs of Scratch stations, with hundreds of user accounts. Tweaking the direct link to the destination folder isn't good enough; the Scratch app needs to be able to know where each user's home directory resides.
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