![]() dcppboot.xml is (one of the many not too nice) existing solution for Vista users, still, DC++ definiately needed a better way to solve this. According to the years long recommendations (which became expectations over the years), Microsoft introduced User State Virtualization which arose problems described eg. Problems started growing with the arrival of Windows Vista. In Windows XP there are no problems accessing (settings) files located besides the executable in the %PROGRAMFILES% folder, even though since the release of Windows 2000, Microsoft recommended using %APPDATA% folders for this purpose. ![]() The feature works well under Windows as well, however its rarely used in this platform. The configuration parameter can’t be set from DC++ GUI, it can be altered only by manually editing the file. If you open up the file you’ll see some usage instructions in the comments. The custom folder can be set in a standalone config file called dcppboot.xml, specifying a path relative to the DC++ executable. It allows the user to specify different folder than the program directory to store config files, temporary data and downloads (by default). The feature itself is actually in the dcpp lilbrary and I believe it has been made in favour of *nix ports. While (especially the past entries of) this blog contains numerous great information about DC++ internals almost in a knowledge base manner, you can’t find any reference to an useful feature introduced way back in DC++ 0.695.
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