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Folding@home Desktop Client Windows Installer
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Design FAH data structurers for multi-user machines. #3

Closed jcoffland closed 9 years ago

jcoffland commented 9 years ago

Reported by @bb30994 on 19 Jun 2010 19:10 UTC It's not uncommon for an installer to ask "Install for all users or for just yourself?" If they choose all users, the data files would need to be accessible to everyone. Suppose it's "home\all users" Potentially I could log out as User1 and log in as User2. If both of us have a FAH shortcut in startup, I could resume work on the current WUs -- but only if file-locking is properly considered. Suppose I "Switch Users" from User1 (leaving it running), Log on as User2. When user2 tries to start the client, he finds the files in use, and gets a message that FAH can't start because it's already running as User1.

jcoffland commented 9 years ago

Comment by @jcoffland on 19 Jun 2010 21:09 UTC This was in the installer and I removed it. I'll put this back and enable storing data in a home directory such as '''home\all users'''.

jcoffland commented 9 years ago

Comment by @jcoffland on 23 Jun 2010 22:30 UTC Fixed in v7.0.7