Application updates require administrative permissions (and errors are unhelpful)

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Application updates require administrative permissions (and errors are unhelpful) #91

Open CareyJWilliams opened 4 years ago

CareyJWilliams commented 4 years ago

See: https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/cside-the-choicescript-ide-v1-3-0-now-available-18-06-2019/27622/883?u=cjw

What is the best practice here? Probably best if we don't require administrative privilege to modify the app's own directory? Either way, we should at least give a sensible error.

CareyJWilliams commented 4 years ago

Turns out this only occurs when users are moving away from the recommend %APPDATA% installation path and opting for the more traditional "Program Files".