Disappeared files

Hi all

So this one beats me ...
One of my programs is called Reference Manager and is used to make
databases. For every new database, the programs makes two new files.
And here is the problem, the files do exist, you can use them, you can
see them in the browser window if you open them in the program itself,
there are shortcuts in my recently used files pointing to the
destination of where the files should be, but the actual files
themselves are no where to be found with windows explorer. They are no
hidden files, I've checked and I'm administrator of my machine (running
Windows Vista Home Premium). I need back-ups of these files but that's
rather hard if I can't even locate them.

Anybody any ideas of what might be going on or am I looking past the
obvious?

TIA
CreloX

The information may be stored within a container file that is created and
used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that program.

Check the programs documentation to verify this.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> So this one beats me ...
> One of my programs is called Reference Manager and is used to make
> databases. For every new database, the programs makes two new files.
> And here is the problem, the files do exist, you can use them, you can see
> them in the browser window if you open them in the program itself, there
> are shortcuts in my recently used files pointing to the destination of
> where the files should be, but the actual files themselves are no where to
> be found with windows explorer. They are no hidden files, I've checked and
> I'm administrator of my machine (running Windows Vista Home Premium). I
> need back-ups of these files but that's rather hard if I can't even locate
> them.
>
> Anybody any ideas of what might be going on or am I looking past the
> obvious?
>
> TIA
> CreloX

Richard Urban wrote:
> The information may be stored within a container file that is created
> and used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that
> program.
>
> Check the programs documentation to verify this.
>

The thing is, it didn't used to do that with Windows XP. Why would it do
so in Vista if it is the exact same program build years before Vista?

Now you know the issue. You said it yourself. LOL

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"CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message news:%23m2qYqwvHHA.3364@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> The information may be stored within a container file that is created
>> and used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that
>> program.
>>
>> Check the programs documentation to verify this.
>>
>
> The thing is, it didn't used to do that with Windows XP. Why would it do
> so in Vista if it is the exact same program build years before Vista?
>

When you're in C:\Program Files\Your Program (or possibly a subfolder of
that path), do you see a button in the taskbar of Windows Explorer called
"Compatibility Files"? Clicking on that should take you to a folder under
C:\Users\(Your Name)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files, where your
database files should be. Vista's UAC tries to disallow programs from
writing user files to the C:\Program Files subdirectories.



"CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%23m2qYqwvHHA.3364@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> The information may be stored within a container file that is created and
>> used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that
>> program.
>>
>> Check the programs documentation to verify this.
>>
>
> The thing is, it didn't used to do that with Windows XP. Why would it do
> so in Vista if it is the exact same program build years before Vista?
>

dean-dean wrote:
> When you're in C:\Program Files\Your Program (or possibly a subfolder of
> that path), do you see a button in the taskbar of Windows Explorer
> called "Compatibility Files"? Clicking on that should take you to a
> folder under C:\Users\(Your Name)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
> Files, where your database files should be. Vista's UAC tries to
> disallow programs from writing user files to the C:\Program Files
> subdirectories.
>
>
>
> "CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23m2qYqwvHHA.3364@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Richard Urban wrote:
>>> The information may be stored within a container file that is created
>>> and used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that
>>> program.
>>>
>>> Check the programs documentation to verify this.
>>>
>>
>> The thing is, it didn't used to do that with Windows XP. Why would it
>> do so in Vista if it is the exact same program build years before Vista?
>>
>

That was indeed the problem.
Thanks

CreloX

You're welcome friend.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:eIAyn7xvHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> dean-dean wrote:
>> When you're in C:\Program Files\Your Program (or possibly a subfolder of
>> that path), do you see a button in the taskbar of Windows Explorer called
>> "Compatibility Files"? Clicking on that should take you to a folder
>> under C:\Users\(Your Name)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files,
>> where your database files should be. Vista's UAC tries to disallow
>> programs from writing user files to the C:\Program Files subdirectories.
>>
>>
>>
>> "CreloX" <crelox@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23m2qYqwvHHA.3364@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Richard Urban wrote:
>>>> The information may be stored within a container file that is created
>>>> and used by the program. In that case it will only be visible to that
>>>> program.
>>>>
>>>> Check the programs documentation to verify this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The thing is, it didn't used to do that with Windows XP. Why would it do
>>> so in Vista if it is the exact same program build years before Vista?
>>>
>>
>
> That was indeed the problem.
> Thanks
>
> CreloX