Originally Posted by Balehawk
would have thought Blizz would have fixed it to a better solution.
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It's how Windows 7 handles personal data when you install a program in the default "Program Files" location. It's so that there aren't any privacy issues, since if the game just stored your private data in the game folder under Program Files, any other user can also access that folder and read your stuff.
The OS simply tries to fallback to a more secure solution where your private data gets reallocated for each user account on the machine, instead of them all sharing one folder. By relocating like this you avoid privacy issues for shared machines.
For most home users the best way to avoid these issues is to install your games in C:\Games or something, anything but the default Program Files folder would make the program store data in their default behaviors instead of moving stuff around, confusing the novice computer users.
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