Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #9226: On some computer, the Common Appdata is empty in registry, so boost interprocess cannot work.

Ion Gaztañaga — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:24:04 GMT

Thanks for the report and proposal, it would be implemented as suggested.

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Ion Gaztañaga — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:07:37 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → fixed

(In [86318]) Fixes #9226 (On some computers, Common Appdata is empty in registry, so boost interprocess cannot work)

Aaron_Wright@… — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:04:33 GMT

SHGetSpecialFolderPathA is not supported. SHGetKnownFolderPath is the new way. Might need to support both the new and the old via #ifdef.

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evgeny.panasyuk@… — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 12:37:51 GMT

status closed → reopened
resolution fixed

There is same problem again in 1.57. Path is taken directly from registry entry which is empty on certain environments.

Aaron_Wright@… — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:16:32 GMT

I found the best way to deal with this is to use a static hidden folder on the C: drive, and bypass all the code that picks a folder based on the Common Appdata and the startup time of the Event service. (Which is another ticket you should look at.) It is almost comical how hard Windows makes this.