Cannot find my profiles when I run as Administrator

[Lazza]

I have the Steam version of VoiceAttack and have set it up (options and profiles) without administrator rights.
Now when I try to run VoiceAttack as Administrator it loads with the trial (unpaid) configuration that I had previously downloaded direct from the Voice Attack site.
What do I need to do to run the Steam version of VA as administrator?
Thanks.

[Pfeil]

Are you using a different user account for administrator privileges?

What you're experiencing would point to the elevated environment not matching that of your regular environment, causing applications to use different directories to look for and store user files.


If your user account is already set up as administrator, you could try creating a new account(also with admin rights) to use, so corruption of your existing account should no longer be an issue.

You'll also want to do this:

One thing I always suggest is running a system file scan (which is something that you should do from time to time anyway):  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929833/use-the-system-file-checker-tool-to-repair-missing-or-corrupted-system

to try and make sure other system files are in working order.


If you're using another account for admin rights on purpose, you could look into using the "-datadir"(VoiceAttackHelp.pdf page 127) parameter to point VoiceAttack at the actual location of the profile database.
There is no such option for the settings file(which also contains your license information), however.

You could also try moving the files, or use symbolic links to them(though that may require some fiddling with file permissions).

[Lazza]

Yes, my administrator account is different.
So put in the commande line " -datadir" as you suggested and my profiles can now be acessed using my administrator account. Will change the settings and give it a go.
Thanks a lot for your help.

[Lazza]

Also did the scan as suggested - no problems found.

[Pfeil]

It's certainly not a bad idea to run that scan regardless, though I meant for you to do so if something was wrong with your user profile(in case other things on your system were also damaged).


To make sure we're on the same page: When you run an application as a different user account(elevated or not) it will read and write information for that user, regardless of which account you logged in as in the first place.

This is not specific to VoiceAttack, it's how Windows works, so what you're experiencing is correct behavior.

[Lazza]

Understood about the scan.
And thanks for the explanation.