I'm a new user of Bukkit. I'm running a private server for my son and his friends. I was looking for quite some time to find where the world files were. Eventually I learned that the worlds and everything else landed in the System32 folder. It's very strange. I searched here and googled around for help and haven't had much luck. I've updated to the very latest versions of java. I would like all the files related to this server to be somewhere more logical. Here are the answers to the questions in the sticky post: 1. windows 7 pro sp1 64bit 2. 64bit 3. I have java 7.0.210 32bit and java 7.0.210 64bit 5. I have craftbukkit-1.5.2-R0.1 6. http://pastebin.com/DzMzq5QE 7. What command are you using to run your CraftBukkit server? in a bat file: java -Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -jar "c:\Program Files\Bukkit\craftbukkit-1.5.2-R0.1.jar" -o true PAUSE 8. What plugins are you running? none 9. the world files and the various config files all got created in system32. 10. What have you tried already? reinstalled java, logged on here, pleaded for help... I just uninstalled both 32 and 64 bit java. I checked and the java files that were in the system32 folder were gone. So I reinstalled them both fresh. It put java files back in the system32 folder. I moved the world folders to another location for safekeeping. When I ran bukkit, it created new world folders in the system32 folder. again. EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.
I used a whole bunch of command line arguements to force bukkit to look for some files in the bukkit directory, but most of it is still saving in system32. Please someone help?
ukemike Are you starting with admin rights? I've heard of the files being referenced from the directory of cmd.exe (system32) when "Running as administrator." Also try running everything within a single folder to avoid exterior references. Not sure if this helps any. You're not using any type of special CraftBukkit installer are you?
I am running as an admin. I found it crashed when I didn't. Perhaps I should put the bukkit folder somewhere that doesn't require admin rights to write to?
You probably were running your command window in system32, so that's where it created the files. Which is also probably why it didn't work as a non-admin. If you create a desktop icon to run the batch file, fill-in the 'Start in' info. I have mine set to start in C:\Users\Minecraft\Documents\Minecraft The "Minecraft" user is a non-admin account.
I had it in the "Program Files." Now I have it in it's own area on my d: drive and it's great! Thanks. To summarize for anyone who finds this later: If you try to run Bukkit in Win7 from the "Program Files" you'll need to run as admin, and that will cause your various folders and config files to be created in system32 which is a hassle.