[tor-bugs] #7956 [Tor]: Tor uses Roaming (remote) %APPDATA% instead of %LOCALAPPDATA%

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#7956: Tor uses Roaming (remote) %APPDATA% instead of %LOCALAPPDATA%
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  erinn
  cypherpunks            |     Status:  assigned
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
     Priority:  major    |    Version:  Tor: unspecified
    Component:  Tor      |   Keywords:  tor-client win32 024-backport
   Resolution:           |  AppData Roaming Local Windows
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:  #10205
       Points:           |
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Comment (by erinn):

 Just wanted to give another update. Things are still moving. When
 bobnomnom and I were investigating this more we discovered that because of
 the way the current bundle requests permissions, it was failing to install
 to Program Files (x86 or other) but silently failing because it didn't
 have write access. The fix we decided on is that it will alert the user to
 the failure and return them to the path selection screen, although they
 will get $LOCALAPPDATA by default. The error message could probably use
 some improvement, but the current version of what we're testing is here:

 https://gitweb.torproject.org/erinn/tor.git/shortlog/refs/heads/bug7956-2

 Longer term, I think we will want to remove basically everything in
 contrib/ that is related to packaging (and re-examine the changes
 suggested in #8966) and migrate the relevant parts to Gitian. Currently I
 am migrating the package_nsis-mingw.sh script into the Tor expert bundle
 descriptor.

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