Skill templates folder and Vista

sumasage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

In XP the template used to be in the GW folder but in Vista it is under C:\Users\userName\Documents\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills. Anyone know how to change it so that it will look into the GW folder? Thanks.

Lonesamurai

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

are you sure it hasn't installed Guild Wars there? mine saves in teh guild wars folder in program Files

EternalTempest

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

I would cut and past the folder to be in the guildwars folder and see if GW picks it up / saves to it correctly.

Bowstring Badass

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

Or you can do something simple take the folder and drag it into the guild wars file and if that does not work I would suggest putting the template folder on the desktop if you are giving the templates to other players such as guildies and friends.

DutchGun

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

Washington, USA

Quote:
Originally Posted by sumasage
In XP the template used to be in the GW folder but in Vista it is under C:\Users\userName\Documents\Guild Wars\Templates\Skills. Anyone know how to change it so that it will look into the GW folder? Thanks.
Are you saying it's not working now?

It sounds like Guild Wars is trying to be more compliant with multi-user standards. Part of this is being able to operate with a limited-rights account (non-administrator), which means that users don't have rights to save data in files under /Program Files/ (where the default GW installation is).

But this is just speculation... Sorry, I guess that's not helpful if you want to move the files to the old directory.

sumasage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by DutchGun
Are you saying it's not working now?

It sounds like Guild Wars is trying to be more compliant with multi-user standards. Part of this is being able to operate with a limited-rights account (non-administrator), which means that users don't have rights to save data in files under /Program Files/ (where the default GW installation is).

But this is just speculation... Sorry, I guess that's not helpful if you want to move the files to the old directory.

It is working but just not saving to the location like in Win XP. Maybe it is trying to do the rights like you said. I frequently format my computer so just dont want to forget and loose all my templates I tried to run it with Admin rights but still the same. Anyone find a fix?


To ANet's Developers: If possible implement so we can change template save location. Thanks!

Lonesamurai

Lonesamurai

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

Cheltenham, Glos, UK

Wolf Pack Samurai [WPS]

R/A

Ok, after a recent reinstall of vista (damn nvidia drivers!!!), I have now found out, to my happy happy joy joy ness, that GW saves screenshots and templates into your My Documents folder... Look there

Salvorin Fex

Salvorin Fex

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

San Diego, CA. USA

The Fellowship of Inverness

W/

OK, folks I have figured it out.

If you run GW in Vista normally it does put it in your "Documents" folder.
If you change the "Properties">"Compatibility" to Windows XP(Service Pack 2)
it creates the folders under "Program Files"

Enjoy moving the files manually though.

Salvorin Fex