Moving iStripper data to a new location
Wszystko o iStripper
September 16, 2020, 35 odpowiedzi
All for many years, this forum contained a sticky that referred to the Registry "hacks" that were being recommended by a whole bunch of Users.
So as a Mod, I wrote a sticky at the time, that no one was to provide registry "hacks" unless that individual was prepared to support an unlearned member who tried said registry "hack" and stuff it up because of lack of knowledge.
I then set about coming down like the hammer of God to anyone who provided such registry "hacks" and maintained that over many many years.
In those days I was one of the more technical savvy members.
Since the migration to the new Forum, that sticky was discarded and that did not worry me, because in the intervening years, WA became openly active in the Forum and it was obvious that his technical knowledge far exceeded my own. Also and most importantly, WA supported any member who acted on his advise to resolve the issue.
So where are we, its a debate about a word "hack" which I have put in parenthesises in this entire post for a reason.
To me, I still regard a registry edit as a "hack" because that is how I learnt to view it, but as the person who wrote the prohibition against registry "hacks" I don't care whether you call it a "hack" or a system settings edit, so long as whoever is making the suggestion, will support the member if any problems arise.
As WA ALWAYs does that, I do not have any problem with how he defines what he is saying (and he is technically right). Indeed my data file location was amended so long ago that I forget when for exactly the reasons that wtprivate was wanting to achieve.
I can also say that the Totem Development team have long know of people doing this and they did not mind, but what they would have wanted at all costs is to be suddenly faced with a bunch of inexperienced users going and making edits to their registry file without understanding the consequences of what they were doing and then be expecting the Totem team to fix the problems.
Hence my stance so many years ago.
But given how WA has ALWAYS supported members who make registry changes on his behalf, I have NEVER felt any need to criticise his advice.
The issue of whether Totem should provide additional tools is a separate topic and it may be something on their drawing board, as it took them a mere 15 years or so to introduce the ability to change the models folder in their system settings
