Windows 10: Adding a file to the root of C drive. Will this cause problems ?

Discus and support Adding a file to the root of C drive. Will this cause problems ? in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; This is a bit of an odd one. I use a program that calls up data from a text file. This means I have many copies of the same file scattered in... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by Mooly, Sep 28, 2017.

  1. Mooly Win User

    Adding a file to the root of C drive. Will this cause problems ?


    This is a bit of an odd one.

    I use a program that calls up data from a text file. This means I have many copies of the same file scattered in various project folders which is messy for a variety of reasons, not least having dozens of the same file exist.

    Placing the file at the root of the drive means I can call up the file with a short address, and it all seems to work OK. The only question is whether this will cause any issues for Windows itself, particularly updates and so on.

    (although I could place the file elsewhere, it means I don't get to use a short file name which is important because the filename has to appear on the workspace of the program concerned)

    So will this cause any long term issues ?


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    Mooly, Sep 28, 2017
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  2. WINDOWS 10 SAVING A FILE TO THE C:\ ROOT DRIVE. ERROR MSG: 0x80070522

    AFAIR, Microsoft introduced this restriction with Windows 7. It's part of UAC (User Access Control). If you do not like it then you must turn off UAC (not recommended).
     
    Frederik Long, Sep 28, 2017
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  3. WINDOWS 10 SAVING A FILE TO THE C:\ ROOT DRIVE. ERROR MSG: 0x80070522

    I used to be able to do this in any of the other windows OS. So is this a new win10 thing that has no solution? I can create folders in C and save files there. But, why is it throwing an error msg like that. If it was not a privilege issue why make
    it look like that to the user?
     
    REDTAIL_CODEGUY, Sep 28, 2017
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  4. Adding a file to the root of C drive. Will this cause problems ?

    Hi Mooly. None that I'm aware of.

    Lots of people will have other folders on the root, like you have Intel and Dell. I have one called Data.
     
    Caledon Ken, Sep 28, 2017
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  5. Mooly Win User
    Thanks for that Ken, it seems you do something similar *Smile

    I'm trying to tidy everything up for when the Fall update comes along. Although I will clean install, I'm using the available time to get all my files in order first.
     
    Mooly, Sep 28, 2017
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  6. Bree New Member
    Creating files on the root of the C: drive shouldn't cause a problem for Windows, but it may be a problem for the app creating the file. The root of C: is protected and you'll get an 'administrator approval' popup if you try to manually create or save a file there. I'd create a subfolder on C: and use that.
     
  7. Mooly Win User
    Thanks Bree, that a really good point. This application never actually writes to the file (it is just a lookup), but I do occasionally add new data manually to it and yes, you are right... when I tried to paste a new line into it as a test there were objections. I had to open notepad as admin and locate the file manually in order to edit it. Altering the file is such an infrequent occurrence though, that I can probably live with that.

    I'll see how it all works in practice now... great not to have all those duplicate files in numerous folders which was the main reason for trying this.
     
    Mooly, Sep 29, 2017
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  8. cereberus Win User

    Adding a file to the root of C drive. Will this cause problems ?

    In the end, it is simply bad practice to put files in root directory. Even putting non system directories is not the greatest idea if they can be placed in user directories or another partition/drive.
     
    cereberus, Apr 5, 2018
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