Creating a CFG file in Acad2005 Folder

All,

I have a VBA program that creates a CFG file in the "AcadApplication.Path"
folder to store my settings. With earlier releases of AutoCAD this worked
great, however in AutoCAD 2005 the file is not created for some reason.
It's like the folder is write protected.

This is a good place for me to create my CFG file, because I can always
count on the folder being there.

Anyone know why or have a similar problem?

Thank you,

Jim Dee

 

AutoCAD has paths all over the place these days. You might consider one
of the paths inside the user's Application Data folder.

 

Frank,

Thank you for the suggestion! Do you know how to retrieve this path in VBA?
I guess this would be the "Data Source Location"?

Thank again,

Jim Dee

 

"C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD
2005\R16.1\enu\Config.cfg"

Windows should resolve the username.

~Tim Riley

 

I'd recommend %USERPROFILE%\App....

The users profile directory varies and is not always the users name. For
example, for some users you will see username.DOMAIN. It will also cover
you just incase someone has decided to modify the path of Documents and
Settings.

-Dan

 

Starting with 2005, the user no longer requires poweruser rights so it
sounds like your users have rights below this, which makes writing to
folders outside of their app paths impossible. An alternative to those
answers already given is to pop it on the network somewhere

-- Mike
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Mike Tuersley
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Rand IMAGINiT Technologies
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Thank you all for your help.

Jim Dee