Redirecting appdata

[MrSheen]

Redirecting appdata,

I dont know if redirecting is the right word to use, however a few games and programs stick a folder with a single file into appdata. Which I was wondering can you actually run say WinRar, Lemmings etc and have it redirect what the program is sending to appdata into the current folder?

I know you can use DirMove and DirRemove to copy them back and fourth but would like to know if there is a way to have windows believe the current folder is actually the appdata folder while running the game/program.

[JScript]

Try this example:

Local $sMyCurrentFolder = ; Type the folder you want.
Local $sGameFullPath = ; Type the 'full path' of game/program you want

; Redirecting appdata...
EnvSet("APPDATA", $sMyCurrentFolder); Thanks to ProgAndy...
EnvUpdate() ; Refreshes the OS environment.

; load your game/program
RunWait($sGameFullPath)

This solves?

EnvSet("APPDATA", $sMyCurrentFolder); Thanks to ProgAndy...

Edited July 1, 2010 by jscript

[MrSheen]

Thank you for your help.

Nope it does not work, tried it on a five games and two program and still ends up saving in to the appdata folder.

[ProgAndy]

Just try this:

Local $sMyCurrentFolder = "D:\TEMP"; Type the folder you want.
Local $sGameFullPath = "cmd /k echo APPDATA = %APPDATA%"; Type the 'full path' of game/program you want

; Redirecting appdata... only for this script and its child processes
EnvSet("APPDATA", $sMyCurrentFolder)
EnvUpdate() ; Refreshes the OS environment.

; load your game/program as a child
Run($sGameFullPath)

Edited July 1, 2010 by ProgAndy

[MrSheen]

Tried the second one and it still uses the system appdata folder, tried a simple batch with "Set APPDATA = F:\storage" and that also never redirected anything.