1 Topic by GregL

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Topic: Feature Request - Plugins

1. Re Plugins, it would be very helpful if one could define the hard drive folder where they are stored.

Given that NAS devices can be had for less than the price of a good dinner for two, and that many people have both a desktop and a notebook, simple syncing would be helpful.  I have already been caught with a plugin updated on one system, but not the other.  I realize there are some concurrency issues, along with the issue that the 'plugin folder' seems to be scanned only at NWare startup, but regardless, it would be much easier to sync two or more systems if the folder was shared.

2. Some more user device functionality in 1.6+ - I believe that some doc states that plug-ins are imported from the user device list on first run.  Until the world is running 1.6+, it would be nice to allow importing of user devices via a menu item...

BTW, #2 is based on my inability to see any user devices in 1.6.  If that can be done, where should the folder be?  AppData, Program Files, etc?

Thanks,

Greg

2 Reply by jvalenzuela

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Re: Feature Request - Plugins

I've seen user device files in plugins/nware/user_devices. Which brings up another issue, this type of stuff should not be stored in the program's installation directory. Client software which cannot be run as a normal user is just not acceptable. Nware is already using Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/MediaMatrix, which is where user data *SHOULD* go.

3 Reply by GregL

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Re: Feature Request - Plugins

Jason,

FWIW, I run Vista on all systems, normally as a standard user.  1.6.0 stores the plugins at --

C:\Users\Greg Longtin\AppData\Roaming\MediaMatrix\NWare\UserDevice

So, it seems to work fine with standard user rights.

Thanks,

Greg

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Re: Feature Request - Plugins

That's good; I saw your post and dug around in my 1.5.0 folder to see if I could find some user devices I have on my system. I found a couple .dat files in the Program's directory that seemed to be them. Perhaps this has been fixed with 1.6, which is nice. I know as of 1.5 on XP Pro, I get all sorts of complaints about not being able to write to various .xml files when I run as a normal user.

With regard to user devices, are they .dat or .xml files? If the former, why not the latter?