I can't answer the question why you always end up with a new file...
that's making no sense.
What I can tell you is that this part of the the documentation is
actually outdated and will be fixed soon.
VirtualBox uses %USERPROFILE% or %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% only as a
fallback if the Windows function SHGetFolderPath isn't present (older
than Windows 2000) or if it unexpectedly returns an error when it gets
asked for the user profile location.
So the return value of this function is the primary data source. MSDN
might declare it as deprecated, but using the now recommended
SHGetKnownFolderPath function won't return anything else and it's only
available starting with Windows Vista.
The VirtualBox behavior change happened with 4.3.22/5.0.0. Long time
ago. Guess the docs update was forgotten, because people who know how to
move user profiles should be also smart enough to do the rest
consistently, otherwise many apps will get confused.
Klaus
On 09.11.2016 14:23, Malcolm Clarke wrote:
On 09/11/2016 09:55, [email protected] wrote:
Dear Maxine
I did not have a response from developers why the location of the
configuration file is inconsistent, such that it is overwritten every
time.
Regards
Malcolm
On 28/10/2016 16:59, Maxime Dor wrote:
Which VirtualBox version are you using?
On 28/10/16 16:45, Malcolm Clarke wrote:
Dear Maxine
Regrettably I am not responsible for the configuration of our lab
machines, this is done centrally by the University. I am just poor
professor made to find workarounds for my labs.
In time we shall use VBOX_USER_HOME, which ought to provide a
proper fix as this can point at the home drive of each student (ie
H:\).
In the meantime I am only trying to understand why the students are
losing their global configuration every time they restart the
program, even though the files remain in the directory. Instead the
old file is renamed and a new "empty" file is created in its place.
This makes no sense if USERPROFILE is used every time.
Regards
Malcolm
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