What path did you use for mounting?

I use this:

1mount s c:\progra~2\spel

Are you running DOSBox as a user that has write-permissions for that folder?

No but that might be a reason to the problem.

I changed persmissions but it doesn't make the files appear. When I tried to run as an admin the files were gone. Seems like they are connected to the user...

The mounted drives shouldn't be located in C:\program files.

Thanks for the tip but that doesn't really help.

What's most important is how to retrieve the files.

Maybe they are hidden files. Reconfigure your desktop to show hidden files.

I thought of showing hidden files but it didn't work either.

Deleting the file and re-creating it when the user had the proper rights worked fine, though.

Maybe some kind of Dosbox "sandbox" that sets in when the user doesn't have the rigths?

The mounted drives shouldn't be located in C:\program files.

Look in your user profile under APPDATA (It's a hidden folder).

If you don't have write permission to a protected folder that you are trying to write files to then the files are redirected to your user profile. Has nothing to do with DOSBox.

As Dosfreak wrote 😉
It's actualky a nice feature of Vista and w7. Instead of programs losing data and/or crashing the files are stored in the user profile.
MS should just use an overlay whenever that happens so people know where theor files are...

A nice feature indeed. They were neatly placed under AppData\Local\VirtualStore. Thank you!

DosFreak wrote:

Look in your user profile under APPDATA (It's a hidden folder).

If you don't have write permission to a protected folder that you are trying to write files to then the files are redirected to your user profile. Has nothing to do with DOSBox.

Dominus wrote:

As Dosfreak wrote 😉
It's actualky a nice feature of Vista and w7. Instead of programs losing data and/or crashing the files are stored in the user profile.
MS should just use an overlay whenever that happens so people know where theor files are...

Holy cow! I learned something new today.

I agree, that is a brilliant innovation.

unfortunately it doesn't work for all files.
windows refuses to "virtualize" certain extensions