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------------ Our Problem: ------------ We've got exacly the same problem here, our Documents folder is networked and Arma 2 is just creating empty folders in the users Documents folder. I've noticed other users also have this problem http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=89225 The games pritty much un-playable unless you can save\load games. ---------- Our Setup: ---------- We've got a network of Gaming PCs all are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and there Documents folders are networked via ActiveSynch to a 2008 Server. We've been using ActiveSynch for well over a year now and this is the first time we've encountered any problems. Just as an example here are some of the games we use here on a daily basis, which save to the documents folder with-out any problems: -Guitar Hero III -Bioshock -Tomb Raider Underworld -Spore -Need for Speed Shirt -Age of Empires 3 -Crysis -Fallout 3 -Rise of Nations -Unreal Tournament 3 ------------------------ What we're tried so far: ------------------------ We've tried running the game as an administrator (in-case of any read\write issues) and have used the various compatibility modes. We've also checked the registry for a way of changing the save location for Arma 2 but the only thing that's stored in the registry is the Arma 2 installation key. We've also checked the main folder for Arma 2 for any files which can be opened as text which might provide an option to change the save location, but all the files are in Binary code. ------------- What we need: ------------- It's simply not ethical for us to stop using ActiveSynch because of one bad apple, the ideal solution would be a hot-fix. But as a work around if someone could please let us know of a way to change the save directory to something other than the documents folder (i.e. 'Users\AppData\Local' - Arma2 already uses this folder for dumping log files) that would be extremly helpfull. In the mean time we're going to try editing the core files our-selfs using a HEX editor, if we're successfull in fixing this bug ourselfs we'll be glad to share. ---------- Post added at 11:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 PM ---------- We've found a work around which seems to work fine by forcing the game to save profile information in it's local directory. A fix would still be ideal, but for those of you looking for a work around you should open the game using this additional command line -profiles=[LocalFilePath] For those of you using a shortcut simply right click on the Arma 2 shortcut, click Properties and were you see Target add -profiles=[LocalFilePath] to the end. This should look similar to the following: "C:\Program Files\Bohemia Interactive\ArmA 2\arma2.exe" -profiles=[LocalFilePath]

This is a known problem, please see this thread http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?p=1486377#post1486377