please please please move these folders to %appdata%

ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%appdata%\\aos\\config.ini")

ALSO: if you confirm that you have read this Ben, I will buy you lunch (donate $10) :D

Then you have to buy him a lunch because he already read my suggestion (which is exactly the same, I just didn't notice your earlier posts about it) at this thread. :P
And now pls continue discussing this topic over there.

I just changed the security settings on them to allow me to edit them. I have mine under program files and I have changed my name.

akimbow: this thread is not to support users in working around the broken way this program handles the files, this thread is for the developer to fix the problem so we don't have to work around it.

think of it as the 'one less deuce' thread

Green: he has to read MY thread :p (or fix the problem ;)

I want to avoid solutions that are heavily dependant on the Windows environment, just to make porting to other OS's easier in the future.

I think I will just make the future default installation path something like C:/Ace of Spades to avoid the Program Files UAC issues.

ungh, that's horrible, at least use the ProgramData folder (also known as CommonAppDataFolder) as suggested here by green_beret

(getting out my paypal wallet now ;)

also, you are always going to have to have some platform dependancy

function get_ini_dir() {
#ifdef windows
return ExpandEnvironmentVariables("%appdata%\\aos\\config.ini");
#else
return ".\config.ini"
#endif
}

sorry, i didn't realize i was linking to the .net version of ExpandEnvironmentVariables...

ExpandEnvironmentStrings()

pchar ini_filename = NULL;//kind of a hack, dunno how you deal with your string returns but this one is static so....
function get_ini_filename(){
   #ifdef windows
       if (ini_file_path != null) {
          char path[] = "%appdata%\\Ace Of Spades\\config.ini";
          DWORD size = 0;
          DWORD length = ExpandEnvironmentStrings(path,NULL,size);
          size = length+1;
          ini_filename = malloc(sizeof(char)*size);
          length = ExpandEnvironmentStrings(path,ini_filename,size);
       }
       return ini_filename;
   #else
       return ".\\config.ini";
   #endif
}

This is on the agenda for the next release... as well as lastsav timestamps.

ungh, premature post syndrome, fixed the code to make sense

Nice! Hm...you keep continuing your fast dev-work.
I think I need to donate too. :S