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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Project Location Not Sticking
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 10:42:57 -0700
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On or about 6/1/2005 04:30 PM a carrier pigeon from Cheryl Rothwell delivered:
>But I eliminated all that Robin. It is NOT accessed over the network. The
>preferences are correct. The ini is correct.
<snip>

>This makes no sense to me. A separate computer from what? Create another
>project so I have one open first and then go to the one I want?

In the network access scenario, this is advising you to /never/
access the project from the "local" computer; that is, from the computer
that actually has the project, but to /always/ use a networked remote to
access them. As you say, however, you aren't using the network access
feature (theoretically).

I would, as a test, examine the /properties/ page of any TMG
related INI file before running TMG, taking note of
created/modified/last-accessed timestamps. THEN, after running TMG and,
say, changing the "currently active project" and exiting, reexamine those
INI file timestamps. If the timestamp for "modified" (or "created" if TMG
deletes and writes new, rather than rewriting the existing) have not
changed, the odds are good that you may be encountering a sharing
protection problem (TMG is able to read, but not write, the file).

This is the problem I'd been having on a WinXP machine. The
recommended "user" account could not make changes to the TMG
install-directory (and files therein), so no layout/last project/etc.
changes were being saved. I had to change the system from the default
"simple file sharing" to full security/sharing model, then modify the TMG
install directory and contents to allow modify access to "Users" (I've got
a few other applications that I'm going to have to do that to also...
strange that HomeSite v5 didn't handle it automatically since that's a
major web-page design tool).

TMG really needs to create user-specific INI files, that are
stored somewhere in the user's "application data" directory instead of
using one shared global INI holding data from every user (account). Same
with the default locations for projects/reports/filters -- those should be
somewhere in "My Documents" (which is a pseudo directory path that is
created for each user... in my case "My Documents" really means
"e:\UserData\Dennis Lee Bieber\My Documents" where "Dennis Lee Bieber" is
the name of the account with which I logged in.) Okay, it probably should
have a standard default set in the TMG install directory, but that should
be copied over to a user directory when TMG starts the first time in that
account.

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