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Starsector => Mods => Modding => Topic started by: Debido on November 04, 2014, 03:14:04 PM

Title: Variant Editor security problem
Post by: Debido on November 04, 2014, 03:14:04 PM

Platform: Windows NT 5 and greater.
Issue: Starsector Variant editor is unable to save variant files in the default folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Fractal Softworks\starfarer.res\res\data\variants due to requiring admin permission.
Workaround: Run Starsector with an account that has administrative permissions, or create and add this as a folder with user permissions
Resolution: Change the default variant save location to a folder under a C:\Program Files (x86)\Fractal Softworks\[starsector root]\mod folder which has user R/W permissions by default.

Title: Re: Variant Editor security problem
Post by: Alex on November 04, 2014, 04:41:14 PM

(Moved this to modding b/c it's a purely modding-related issue.)

Title: Re: Variant Editor security problem
Post by: Darloth on November 04, 2014, 11:51:26 PM

You can also fix this by not installing to program files - it often causes issues like this with games, so I put them all in C:\games which windows doesn't care about stuff writing to.

Title: Re: Variant Editor security problem
Post by: Thaago on November 05, 2014, 06:50:39 AM

Welcome to windows. It takes a rather... creative approach to file structures and permissions.