On 7/13/2023 11:14 AM, Mike Kaganski wrote:
On 13.07.2023 21:09, Ralf Quint wrote:
On 7/13/2023 2:17 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
I'm not knowledgeable about Windows/CygWin, but I have two wild
guesses:
- the directory name contains non-ASCII characters ("é")
- the directory name contains a space
The space is most likely the key.
In this case, I am not so sure.
Both things are perfectly valid in Windows, though sometimes
applications are not able to properly handle either.
Exactly that: not all are prepared for that, especially when the
applications are not "for Windows"; even though these are also
perfectly valid on ~all other platforms, there's a strong push-back to
support them in development.
Unfortunately, a lot of Linux/Unix folks think that they hold the one
and only truth. And not everything in Windows is without reason and
purpose and just needs to be denigrated.
The folder "\Users\User Name\" itself is not recommended to be written
to (and I think if you do not have administrator rights, is even write
protected). The proper space for applications under Windows, are either
\Users\User Name\AppData", for user specific data as well as
"\ProgramData", for program specific data (which could be shared between
multiple users on the same host). Btw, both of those folders are by
default set as "hidden"...
Ralf
