Paul,

The virtual store is a pain, but not for me the biggest pain.  Have you
solved my problem?

When I create a file, either through emacs or directly through an Office
program, it
has permissions that make it invisible to the CVS program.  Therefore I need
to manually
in the cygwin shell window enter "chmod u+rw filename" before it is possible
to back
up the file on a server.  The Unix option to set default file modes seems
not to work
on emacs, with or without Windows 7.

Thanks
Rich

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn32@gmail.com> wrote:

> The only big Vista/Win7 complication I see is that "VirtualStore"
> disaster. When I try to configure something in ESS or install an R
> package and I'm not acting as the administrator, then Windows tries to
> "fool me" by installing the app in a hidden part of the user  account,
> in a folder named like
> C:\Users\pauljohn\AppData\...\LocalSettings\VirtualStore\.  Then it
> creates an "illusion" that it did install into C:\Program Files\R by
> re-routing my user requests from the C:\Program Files area into that
> VirtualStore.  So after I log off, then other users come along and R
> packages or Emacs ESS config changes I made are not available to them.
>

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