not working in system wide windows installation

[swirly]

We are working in a school with windows 7 workstation

In order to work in our school, we install atom in %PROGRAMFILES% by unzipping instead of %localappdata%

Atom works but the floobits plugin does not work anymore. We can sign in, we can join a workspace but after that, nothing happens. Just the .floo file with URL is created, but no file is synced

It seems that the plugin somehow rely on atom being installed in %localappdata%

[swirly]

Tried again today
floobits install fines
cannot join workspace
cannot create workspace

seems to be a permission problem

[swirly]

This is indeed a permission problem. Tried with an admin account. It write in
C:\Program Files\Atom~\floobits\persistent.json

The ~is not evaluated in windows and it writes in a system folder where a normal user shall not write

The pugin shoud use ATOM_HOME variable

[swirly]

Ok. Found the source of the bug

persistentjson.js in lib/common

line 7 and up

function PersistentJson() {
this.data = {};
this.path = fs.absolute("~/floobits/persistent.json");
}

the path should be fixed using ATOM_HOME
maybe un upgrade process should be invoked in case of package upgrading