[Shu-cdromlan] Re: default save to A:

[Tom Edelblute]

Let me get this straight.  You actually have a server where your library patrons actually save their work to the server hard-drive.  Is that what you are telling us?  How do you manage this?  I would think the server hard-drive would become full within a matter of days with everyone out there saving their stuff to the
hard-drive.  Do you have some sort of maintenance program to remove the old files?
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Tom Edelblute
Reference and Technology Librarian
Anaheim Public Library   phone: (714) 765-1759
500 West Broadway        fax:   (714) 765-1730
Anaheim CA 92805         e-mail: thomas@anaheim.lib.ca.us


Jo Cox wrote:

> HI,
>
> I am not so sure about all this setting default saves to Drive A: as it has caused an awfull lot of problems in our public access Pc's.
> We do tend to have a rather unique setup so maybe the problem is antagonised by this. We have a about 600 Pc's scattered around for student access, all apps (except IE) are maintained remotely on network servers and run from there. Each user has a drive h:\ as a home directory ( mapped to a server ). We encourage
> students to never use 'Save As' or work on files that reside on floppy, we have had an awfull lot of corrupted files especially larger pieces of work when people do this. Instead we encourage use of H: and explorer to copy files to A: for backup purposes. The same story applies to Zip disks that we have fitted to these
> machines.
> If anybody else has had this problem I'd be interested to hear and see if we can work out a common pattern for this problem.
> Cheers
> Jo
>
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> Mary Platt wrote:
>
> > Whenever I have tried to make the prefs file read only in the last two versions of netscape I have worked with (4.5 and 4.7) it creates an error when netscape closes down.  Netscape is trying to save, apparently, to that file and is blocked.  The error is harmless, but like any error message, is unnerving to users.
> >
> > Mary Platt
> > Kennesaw State University
> >
> > >>> lsheppard@LIBRARY.DELMAR.EDU 10/15/00 05:00PM >>>
> > Try editing the Prefs file inside the user's folder.  (normally c:\program files\netscape\users\**).
> > Add or  edit the existing line (with notepad) to look like this:
> > user_pref("browser.download_directory", "a:\\");
> > Netscape will default to the floppy drive first, with patrons able to change locations after that.
> > To keep patrons from changing this, make the file read only. Each time Netscape is launched, it will go back to whatever settings are in the prefs file. Doing this will also enable you to "lock in" other settings such as home page, url history etc.
> > Larry Sheppard
> > Lan Manager
> > Del Mar College Library Automation
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:   Doris Munson [SMTP:dorism@clackamas.cc.or.us]
> > Sent:   Friday, October 13, 2000 11:32 AM
> > To:     CDROMLAN@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> > Subject:        Re: default save to A:
> >
> > Is there a way to do this with Netscape also?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doris Munson
> > Catalog/Technical Systems Librarian
> > Clackamas Community College
> > 19600 S. Molalla Avenue
> > Oregon City, OR 97045
> > (503) 657-6958 x2463
> > fax: (503) 655-8925
> > dorism@clackamas.cc.or.us
> >
> > >>> SCP_SULLI@sals.edu 10/05/00 07:51PM >>>
> > >Is there any way of changing the default save location in Windows NT from:
> > >C:\winnt\profiles\username\personal
> > >to the A: drive?
> >
> > This value is stored at:
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\
> > User Shell Folders\Personal
> >
> > and is of type REG_EXPAND_SZ.
> >
> > Note that this will work for Internet Explorer and MS Access; the other Office
> > products have their own settings.
> >
> > Bob Sullivan                               scp_sulli@sals.edu
> > Schenectady County Public Library (NY)     http://www.scpl.org
>
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