Blockland Forums > Suggestions & Requests
Better folder structure
Richard Robertson:
--- Quote from: Space Guy on January 06, 2010, 04:04:46 PM ---The Application Data file is hidden for no explained reason which makes Add-Ons and such hard to install, the file writing protection breaks just about everything by having written files inaccessible to the program sometimes or files directly installed to C:/Program Files not working. It's two folders pretending to be one merged one and usually end up as one and a half, or perhaps none at all. (With a million extra broken shortcuts everywhere to folders that no longer exist like WinXP's Documents and Settings that don't work sometimes) Then there's the registry, just to slow everything down and put all your settings in more confused, bloated "backwards-compatible" storage.
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You seem to have missed the part where I said that addons would go under My Documents or other similar folder.
And who said anything about the registry?
Space Guy:
--- Quote from: Richard Robertson on January 06, 2010, 03:41:49 PM ---"Application Data" = where the data goes.
Good operating systems use this organization.
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Some of the data goes in the Registry, so if you want to call it a good system then you've got to include that too. You can't put the data in My Documents either since that'd be against the whole point of the Windows data folder structure you're defending. If you're putting it there then you may as well use C:/Blockland.
Richard Robertson:
--- Quote from: Space Guy on January 06, 2010, 04:21:49 PM ---Some of the data goes in the Registry, so if you want to call it a good system then you've got to include that too. You can't put the data in My Documents either since that'd be against the whole point of the Windows data folder structure you're defending. If you're putting it there then you may as well use C:/Blockland.
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~faceplam~
Windows XP and newer versions have a Saved Games folder either in My Documents (XP) or directly on the user (Vista/7). That's where the game addons and saved builds would go.
Programs should never be installed to the root of the drive. Not only is it disorganized, it's tacky.
Programs should be easy to back up. When everything is stored in the user's folder, copying the entire folder can be considered a complete OS backup. All the programs can be reinstalled and then the user's folder is just pasted back in place. Blockland can't be backed up like that, while everything else I use, can be.
Also, the registry is rather abused at this point. Originally it was only used to store file extension associations. This was as early as Windows 3.1.
Destiny/Zack0Wack0:
You can argue all you like, Badspot is not going to change the file structure just because one person says it's messy. The fact that you want the game split into 3 parts, is even more messy then the current system.
If you don't want to install the game directly on your main drive, make a Games sub folder.
rkynick:
--- Quote from: Richard Robertson on January 05, 2010, 11:28:22 PM ---That's not a real solution. The problem isn't UAC, it's the fact that Blockland is writing to the Program Files folder in the first place. It shouldn't be writing there.
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Try to understand how complicated the change you suggest is comparatively to you moving the folder.
Beyond that, splitting the program and the data is a stupid move, in my personal opinion.