Saving files in Program Files (x86) in Windows 10?

[dpJudas]

Besides the fact that Graf is right that a well-behaved program (since Windows 95!) would never ever write into program files (use appdata or temp folder for this), the best workaround is not to disable UAC: just change the file permissions on the slade folder so everyone can write into it.

[InsanityBringer]

I'm still confused, though, because I'm fairly certain Slade 3 can work perfectly fine out of Program Files, though as mentioned I don't have my ACS compiler in there. Regardless I've been running SLADE 3 from there for years on computers running Windows 7 and above. Even then I don't think that should be relevant, under default settings it should write temp files into your user directory. It does this perfectly fine on my end, I guess because I always set up from the installer. Maybe somehow it was put into "portable" mode? This would make it write to its own folder, which of course doesn't work in modern versions of windows.

I don't understand all these workarounds when there's clearly something not set up right with Slade 3 itself.

[NeuralStunner]

You don't have to disable UAC; the demons took care of that already.

Damn it, Ethril! Every. Time.