SCMDraft apparently manages to hide the .scx [EDIT: and .scm] files it saves from Windows. Completely. Hidden files are visible, by the way. Even manually entering the address displayed in SCMDraft results in the following:



However, it's not too pressing of an issue, because thus far SCMDraft can still reopen it, and I'd imagine SC can as well. EDIT: SC can see the folder, but not the file. Also, when I click "Save As", I see this:



Whereas no other map in any of the original folders have the little lock in the bottom left. I'd imagine something funky is going on with SCMDraft, if anyone could help, that would be phenomenal.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jan 7 2011, 7:30 am by poison_us.

welcome to windows 7, where your entire hard drive is in some other folder (somewhere in your profile) that only windows explorer recognizes. I swear this UAC virtualization bullshit is getting on my nerves. Go ahead and give yourself complete control over the starcraft folder, or install SC on a second drive which has full control.

Check C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore which is where Windows Vista and later (so far) store files by default when a program in Program Files is not running with permissions to write to its own folder. I think this is only a transitional feature that Microsoft intends to do away with in a later version of Windows. If you do not want this feature to be used for a program, often you can either install the program elsewhere or modify the permissions of the program's folder after installing. For some programs that need to write to settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the registry (probably not applicable in this case), you can use regedit to change the permissions of the applicable registry keys or settings (usually not necessary - in my experience, most programs only write in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE when installing or uninstalling).

Thank you shadow, found it. Also, I could just use "run as administrator". Didn't have to for my desktop, which was also on 7, so this is kind of odd. Thanks for the help.

rockz: In practice it usually works right, but there are some programs that are just incompatible with the feature. There are many programs that this feature allows to run without running as administrator.

Always run as admin when in doubt. It's fixed almost every problem I've ever had with win7.

I've got a command line program which uses drag and drop. I can't run that as admin properly.