windows vista search file the cookies folder

Hello All,
I am working on to package an application for Windows Vista using Wise Package Studio 5.5.
However I am unable to make the "Search for File" ScriptAction work properly when searching for files in the cookies folder:
C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\
The files exist, but this particular ScriptAction is unable to find the files in this folder.
I am using Package Studio 5.5.
Any thoughts on why this is happening? Are there any permission on the OS that are preventing the directory search?
The ScriptAction works fine on searching the Cookies folder on Windows XP.
Thanks Saqib
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The currently logged on user only has access to their folder inside the users directory ... they will be unable to access any other user's directory. Even if the currently logged on user is an administrator.

The script only searches the directories to which the logged in user has access to. So it is not the permissions issue.

One thing I did note, is that when I browsed to that directory in Windows Explorer, it showed all temporary internet files, not just cookies. This is incorrect behavior; the Cookies folder only contains cookies, no other content.

Actually this is the "normal" behaviour for Internet Temporary Files folder, even in XP and 2000. The cookies directory is a separate folder, but all the Cookie Objects are visible under the "Internet Temporary Files" folder as well.

To double-check and see what is in the folder, you should browse to that folder in a command prompt and do a directory listing. :) Yup already did that. The file is there. :-)

Also as a sidenote, the user name of the logged on user and the directory inside the users folder that corresponds to that user doesn't have match... For example, if you create a user named "public", windows sets that user's profile folder to "public.COMPUTERNAME".

Already looked into this. NOTE: if you are part of a Domain you might get a directory similar to {UserName}.{Domain}
Thanks Saqib
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Any thoughts on why this is happening? Are there any permission on the OS that are preventing the directory search?

Hello,
The currently logged on user only has access to their folder inside the users directory ... they will be unable to access any other user's directory. Even if the currently logged on user is an administrator.
If that's not the problem stopping you ... I'm not sure what is.
One thing I did note, is that when I browsed to that directory in Windows Explorer, it showed all temporary internet files, not just cookies. This is incorrect behavior; the Cookies folder only contains cookies, no other content.
To double-check and see what is in the folder, you should browse to that folder in a command prompt and do a directory listing. :)
Also as a sidenote, the user name of the logged on user and the directory inside the users folder that corresponds to that user doesn't have match... For example, if you create a user named "public", windows sets that user's profile folder to "public.COMPUTERNAME".

"Jimmy Brush" wrote:

Any thoughts on why this is happening? Are there any permission on the OS that are preventing the directory search?
Hello,
The currently logged on user only has access to their folder inside the users directory ... they will be unable to access any other user's directory. Even if the currently logged on user is an administrator.
If that's not the problem stopping you ... I'm not sure what is.
One thing I did note, is that when I browsed to that directory in Windows Explorer, it showed all temporary internet files, not just cookies. This is incorrect behavior; the Cookies folder only contains cookies, no other content.
To double-check and see what is in the folder, you should browse to that folder in a command prompt and do a directory listing. :)
Also as a sidenote, the user name of the logged on user and the directory inside the users folder that corresponds to that user doesn't have match... For example, if you create a user named "public", windows sets that user's profile folder to "public.COMPUTERNAME".

The cookies can contain information like passwords to sites like the ones you checked "Remember me".

Polarina wrote:

The cookies can contain information like passwords to sites like the ones you checked "Remember me".

I don't think any sensible web developer will put password in a cookie.
The "Remember Me" function merely looks for existence of a cookie associated with the particular site, and some encoded string (which is not the password!) in the cookie.
Thanks Saqib
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"saqib ali" wrote in message

Polarina wrote:
The cookies can contain information like passwords to sites like the ones you checked "Remember me".
I don't think any sensible web developer will put password in a cookie.
The "Remember Me" function merely looks for existence of a cookie associated with the particular site, and some encoded string (which is not the password!) in the cookie.
Thanks Saqib
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I have seen passwords that were in the clear in cookies. Makes it all the more important to not duplicate passwords between important and relatively unimportant functions.
-Mark