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A comment on the problem "problems with installing Foxmarks for IE" in Xmarks:
I've just upgraded to Xmarks for IE v. 1.1.3 on a MS Windows XP
Professional SP3.
The installation still works incorrectly - it creates the program shortcuts in
"%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Xmarks"
and the Xmarks for IE icon is
"%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Installer\{F318330F-DE7D-4B22-AF7C-C3760DDC2EF3}\MainIcon.ico"
where the USERPROFILE and APPDATA variables depend on the current user.
Instead, the program shortcuts should be created in
"%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Xmarks"
while the Xmarks for IE icon should be taken from
"installation_directory\xmarkssync.exe"
i.e. "%ProgramFiles%\Xmarks\IE Extension\xmarkssync.exe" by default.
Note that ALLUSERSPROFILE and ProgramFiles variables have constant values for
all users on the system. – Robert Premuž, on November 28, 2009 15:15-
Robert Premuž replied on July 11, 2009 13:12 to the question "Xmarks for IE Error id -12" in Xmarks:
I got that error after upgrading to v.1.0.11.
Doing a Advanced->Download solved the problem. -
Robert Premuž replied on May 09, 2009 23:56 to the problem "problems with installing Foxmarks for IE" in Xmarks:
An addition to my previous problem report (see above):
I've tried the Xmarks 1.0.10 with IE8 (on a MS WinXP SP3) and run into the same problems in multi-user Windows environment.
Please, fix the Xmarks installer for IE to work for the minority of us who try to use multi-user operating systems the right way. I'd say that after more that 10 years of multi-user Windows (starting with Windows NT) still too many software developers have not learned how to make their software compatible with multiple user profiles, limited users accounts, file permissions, registry permissions etc. that exist in multi-user Windows environment. They still think that PC ultimately means one user account with administrative rights.
-- rpr. -
Robert Premuž reported a problem in Xmarks on February 14, 2009 19:29:
problems with installing Foxmarks for IEHi!
I tried to install Foxmarks for IE (ver. 0.9.67) on an MS Windows XP
Professional SP3. (I also use Foxmarks with Firefox 3.0).
As Win XP is a multi-user system, and for security reasons (viruses
etc.), I login to it as a user with limited user rights (i.e. who is
member of the Users local security group only) when doing my usual job
in Windows. I use the Windows administrator account only when
installing software and doing other administrative tasks.
So, after downloading foxmarks-installer-for-ie-0.9.67.msi I run it as
the administrator. I saw that it installed itself to a directory in
"C:\Program Files\Foxmarks\IE Extension", which was fine.
When the Foxmarks Setup Wizard started, I canceled it as I would not
use it as the administrator.
I also saw that the installation created some shortcuts in
"C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Start Menu\Programs\Foxmarks\"
(i.e. in the administrator's profile directory).
That's bad because those shortcuts would not be accessible by other
users of the system. Instead the shortcuts should be created in
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Foxmarks\"
(i.e. in the profile accessible for all users).
So I copied (not moved) the shortcuts to the right place.
Then I logged in with my limited user account and run Foxmarks to set
it up. Here I noticed that the icon of the Foxmarks Favorites
Synchronizer in the Start Menu was not shown correctly because the
icon was taken from the following file:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Installer\{F475B92D-69A1-4642-B580-C6F8F29BAA61}\MainIcon.ico
which is not accessible by a limited user account (icon file is in the
administrator's profile).
Instead the icon should be taken from the executable:
"C:\Program Files\Foxmarks\IE Extension\foxmarkssync.exe".
Please fix the Foxmarks installer for IE so that it
works correctly in the multi-user Windows environments.
Regards,
-- rpr. /Robert Premuž/
