> From: Zachariah Yoder <zach_yo...@wycliffe.org> > >With the advent of Windows 7, however, users who save wget.exe in their >program files directory will be confused as to where the files are saved. >Could you add a line in the wget help directing users either to: >C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\wget or to a >web page that explains the problem? > In Vista/7 users' requests to write to some protected areas are virtualized depending on the app's integrity level. In explorer or from the command interpreter using dir you won't see those files. This isn't a wget issue. As other posters have said change your working directory to an area that is not protected, eg C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads or something.
C:\Program Files\test>ls -al total 32 drw-rw-rw- 2 Internet 0 0 2011-11-30 16:59 . dr--r--r-- 86 Internet 0 32768 2011-11-30 16:59 .. C:\Program Files\test>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879 Directory of C:\Program Files\test 11/30/2011 04:59 PM <DIR> . 11/30/2011 04:59 PM <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 124,645,605,376 bytes free C:\Program Files\test>touch abc C:\Program Files\test>ls -al total 32 drw-rw-rw- 2 Internet 0 0 2011-11-30 16:59 . dr--r--r-- 86 Internet 0 32768 2011-11-30 16:59 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 Internet 0 0 2011-11-30 17:01 abc C:\Program Files\test>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879 Directory of C:\Program Files\test 11/30/2011 04:59 PM <DIR> . 11/30/2011 04:59 PM <DIR> .. 0 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 124,645,605,376 bytes free C:\Program Files\test>dir abc Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879 Directory of C:\Program Files\test File Not Found C:\Program Files\test>cat > abc Access is denied. C:\Program Files\test>dir "C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\test" Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879 Directory of C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\test 11/30/2011 05:01 PM <DIR> . 11/30/2011 05:01 PM <DIR> .. 11/30/2011 05:01 PM 0 abc 1 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 124,645,601,280 bytes free