Re: [Bug-wget] Windows 7 makes wget less intuitive

[Ray Satiro]

> From: Zachariah Yoder <address@hidden>

>
>With the advent of Windows 7, however, users who save wget.exe in their 
>program files directory will be confused as to where the files are saved.  
>Could you add a line in the wget help directing users either to: 
>C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\wget or to a 
>web page that explains the problem?
>
In Vista/7 users' requests to write to some protected areas are virtualized 
depending on the app's integrity level. In explorer or from the command 
interpreter using dir you won't see those files. This isn't a wget issue. As 
other posters have said change your working directory to an area that is not 
protected, eg C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads or something.


C:\Program Files\test>ls -al
total 32
drw-rw-rw-   2 Internet 0     0 2011-11-30 16:59 .
dr--r--r--  86 Internet 0 32768 2011-11-30 16:59 ..

C:\Program Files\test>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879

 Directory of C:\Program Files\test

11/30/2011  04:59 PM    <DIR>          .
11/30/2011  04:59 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  124,645,605,376 bytes free

C:\Program Files\test>touch abc

C:\Program Files\test>ls -al
total 32
drw-rw-rw-   2 Internet 0     0 2011-11-30 16:59 .
dr--r--r--  86 Internet 0 32768 2011-11-30 16:59 ..
-rw-rw-rw-   1 Internet 0     0 2011-11-30 17:01 abc

C:\Program Files\test>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879

 Directory of C:\Program Files\test

11/30/2011  04:59 PM    <DIR>          .
11/30/2011  04:59 PM    <DIR>          ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  124,645,605,376 bytes free

C:\Program Files\test>dir abc
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879

 Directory of C:\Program Files\test

File Not Found

C:\Program Files\test>cat > abc
Access is denied.

C:\Program Files\test>dir "C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program
Files\test"
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E00C-B879

 Directory of C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\test

11/30/2011  05:01 PM    <DIR>          .
11/30/2011  05:01 PM    <DIR>          ..
11/30/2011  05:01 PM                 0 abc
               1 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  124,645,601,280 bytes free