[tor-bugs] #206 [Mixminion-Client]: Failure to create user data on single-users win32 systems

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#206: Failure to create user data on single-users win32 systems
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 Reporter:  quicksilver       |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  closed
 Priority:  Low               |      Milestone:
Component:  Mixminion-Client  |        Version:  0.0.7.1
 Severity:  Normal            |     Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                    |  Actual Points:
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Changes (by arma):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:  None => wontfix


Old description:

> Hi,
>
> There is a problem when running mixminion on single-user win32 systems.
> Some systems have never been setup with any accounts at all. When
> mixminion tries to place the user data in the expected user directory
> (c:\documents and settings\[username]), it fails because the directory
> does not exist. It is customary on these systems to put the user data in
> the application's directory.
>
> We have a work-around, discovered by Ed Langenback, that if you put a
> subdir in the mixminion dir called "~" (no quotes) it will fool mixminion
> into using that directory for user data. One requirement in using this is
> that mixminion must always be started and used from it own directory.
>
> [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: Windows]

New description:

 Hi,

 There is a problem when running mixminion on single-user win32 systems.
 Some systems have never been setup with any accounts at all. When
 mixminion tries to place the user data in the expected user directory
 (c:\documents and settings\[username]), it fails because the directory
 does not exist. It is customary on these systems to put the user data in
 the application's directory.

 We have a work-around, discovered by Ed Langenback, that if you put a
 subdir in the mixminion dir called "~" (no quotes) it will fool mixminion
 into using that directory for user data. One requirement in using this is
 that mixminion must always be started and used from it own directory.

 [Automatically added by flyspray2trac: Operating System: Windows]

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Comment:

 mixminion is dead; long live mixminion

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