[Scummvm-devel] Windows experience

[Johannes Schickel]

On 01/24/2012 11:38 PM, Travis Howell wrote:
> On 25/01/2012 2:36 AM, Willem Jan Palenstijn wrote:
>> Thanks for the activity on the Windows save game location. I've seen a lot of
>> talk on IRC and a few commits, but could someone summarize the current status
>> of the savegame path, including the current thoughts on migration from old to
>> new? (To ensure critical ideas don't stay hidden in IRC logs.)
> The new saved game defaults are listed in section 6.0 of the README:
> Windows Vista/7: \Users\username\AppData\Roaming\ScummVM\Saved games\
> Windows 2000/XP: \Documents and Settings\username\Application
> Data\ScummVM\Saved games\
> Windows NT4:<windir>\Profiles\username\Application Data\ScummVM\Saved
> games\
> Windows 95/98/ME are not effected by the changes.

I would still love to see the save games in a easily accessable path by 
default, i.e. unlike a subdir of %APPDATA%, since %APPDATA% does not 
show in the explorer by default. That makes it even easier for users to 
copy over the save files, despite us having links to the save game 
directory.

As several people pointed out in IRC, our forums and on this mailing 
list starting with Vista (or maybe only 7, can't remember right now) 
Windows offers a "%USERPROFILE%/Saved Games" directory for exactly this. 
So personally I think we should consider taking advantage of that, maybe 
even using the same path for NT/2k/XP.

// Johannes