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First post, by jdahlback

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I use Dosbox 0.74 in Windows 7.

Files created in a mounted directory are permanent in Dosbox but they never show up in windows. How do I find them?

Reply 1 of 14, by SKARDAVNELNATE

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What path did you use for mounting?

Reply 2 of 14, by jdahlback

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I use this:

mount s c:\progra~2\spel

Reply 3 of 14, by Jorpho

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Are you running DOSBox as a user that has write-permissions for that folder?

Reply 4 of 14, by jdahlback

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No but that might be a reason to the problem.

I changed persmissions but it doesn't make the files appear. When I tried to run as an admin the files were gone. Seems like they are connected to the user...

Reply 5 of 14, by Freddo

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The mounted drives shouldn't be located in C:\program files.

Reply 6 of 14, by jdahlback

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Thanks for the tip but that doesn't really help.

What's most important is how to retrieve the files.

Reply 7 of 14, by h-a-l-9000

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Maybe they are hidden files. Reconfigure your desktop to show hidden files.

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Reply 8 of 14, by jdahlback

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I thought of showing hidden files but it didn't work either.

Deleting the file and re-creating it when the user had the proper rights worked fine, though.

Maybe some kind of Dosbox "sandbox" that sets in when the user doesn't have the rigths?

Reply 9 of 14, by wd

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The mounted drives shouldn't be located in C:\program files.

Reply 10 of 14, by DosFreak

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Look in your user profile under APPDATA (It's a hidden folder).

If you don't have write permission to a protected folder that you are trying to write files to then the files are redirected to your user profile. Has nothing to do with DOSBox.

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Reply 11 of 14, by Dominus

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As Dosfreak wrote 😉
It's actualky a nice feature of Vista and w7. Instead of programs losing data and/or crashing the files are stored in the user profile.
MS should just use an overlay whenever that happens so people know where theor files are...

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Reply 12 of 14, by jdahlback

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A nice feature indeed. They were neatly placed under AppData\Local\VirtualStore. Thank you!

Reply 13 of 14, by Jorpho

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DosFreak wrote:

Look in your user profile under APPDATA (It's a hidden folder).

If you don't have write permission to a protected folder that you are trying to write files to then the files are redirected to your user profile. Has nothing to do with DOSBox.

Dominus wrote:

As Dosfreak wrote 😉
It's actualky a nice feature of Vista and w7. Instead of programs losing data and/or crashing the files are stored in the user profile.
MS should just use an overlay whenever that happens so people know where theor files are...

Holy cow! I learned something new today.

I agree, that is a brilliant innovation.

Reply 14 of 14, by Qbix

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unfortunately it doesn't work for all files.
windows refuses to "virtualize" certain extensions

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