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  1. Tahru

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    12/11/2016 1:46 PM
    Title: Screen Capture not working
    Reproduction Rate: 100%
    Blocker?
    Details: F11 does not work
    Steps to Reproduce: Press F11, expect a screen capture. Nothing happens.
    User Specs:
    OS: Windows 10 (10.0.0) 64bit
    CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8) System RAM: 32694
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPU RAM: 16069
    SotA.EarlyAccess.Win.64.427.Date.12.09.16
    Area: Novia
    Area Display Name: Novia
    Loc: (-416.8, 13.0, -172.0)
     
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    I have not checked it today but I thought it was not working a few weeks ago.
    I found the save location had been moved to my Pictures Folder.
    I had 10 screen captures of the same thing in there.

    None in the usual place.
     
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    Can you confirm you are looking under your "user directory"/Pictures/Sota as certainly Ive been getting mine
     
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    Go to File Explorer then.
    This PC > Pictures > SOTA
     
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    It was not there, but I did find them on the C: under a similar path. I configured Windows not to use the C: for documents and files. So this may still be a bug.
     
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    it depends, they were moved to your picture folder for R36. if under windows you dont see them under whereever you moved your pictures to with a folder of sota, or your userfolder/Pictures/sota, it might be good to explain where they ended up and where they should have ended up, knowing it should be a sota folder in your picture folder.
     
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    Great question..

    I changed my default folders before I install a single application on the computer. It is a serious offence to put files where the user does not want them.

    Sota saved to C:\Users\Beast3\Pictures\SotA which is incorrect.

    [​IMG]
     
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    OK, so its the default path rather than the allocated directory path, so rather than using specialfolder.MyPictures, its using the user folder and assuming Pictures .. OK, I that should be an easy fix (cant make promises) but now they have something real specific to look at.

    Forwarded for review 11/12/2016
     
    liz_the_wiz, Dec 11, 2016
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    Exactly,
    That is a major reason I don't use certain programs or OS (Apple/Mac).
    I know where I want things to be put and how I want to do it.
    If a program takes control without giving me a choice, I consider it a virus.
     
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    @Attenwood

    I am a professional developer as well, although I mostly work on UNIX. I updated Visual Studio for Windows and decided to see if I could figure this problem out. The method was straight forward... (from MSDN)

    #include <Windows.h>

    using namespace System;
    int main()
    {
    Console::WriteLine();
    Console::WriteLine("GetFolderPath: {0}", Environment::GetFolderPath(Environment::SpecialFolder::MyDocuments));
    return 0;
    }

    Well... I hate to admit that Microsoft is not reporting the correct location on my machine. I searched and searched and searched again and could not find one page that explains why Windows is not saving to the right place, and especially not how to find out the correct location in software. In the end, it is a yet another F Microsoft day :(

    So I am just going to drop this. You guys have better things to do than track down poor Microsoft caused problems. The world would be a much better place if Bill Gates was a lifetime janitor. If he could clean as much poo as he makes, he would be the best janitor in the world.

    Cheers!
     
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    Tahru, Dec 15, 2016
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