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<p>Data caging means that the applications and the users have access

only to certain areas of the file system. In practice the applications

can access their own private folders and folders that are marked as

open. It means, for example, that one application cannot access the

private folder and data of another application. There are restricted

file storage areas for system, private, and resource data.</p>

<p>The file system has the following structure:</p>

<ul>

<li><p>The <codeph>\sys</codeph> folder is the restricted

system area. You need <codeph>AllFiles</codeph> capability to read

the content, and Trusted Computing Base (<codeph>TCB</codeph>) capability

to modify the content.</p><p>The subfolder <codeph>\sys\bin\</codeph> contains all binaries (<codeph>exe</codeph>, <codeph>dll</codeph>, etc.). All binaries must have a different name. An application

can only be launched from this subfolder.</p></li>

<li><p>The <parmname>\private\</parmname> folder includes

folders for all applications.</p><p>The <codeph>\private\&lt;SID&gt;\</codeph> subfolder contains private data only to be accessed by the application

itself. SID is determined by the <xref href="GUID-3B6E25F7-C1A8-461F-97F7-421DB559BC98.dita#GUID-3B6E25F7-C1A8-461F-97F7-421DB559BC98/GUID-EEC50FC0-46D5-4ED7-AD95-67430D5EC652">Secure Identifier</xref> of the process. Without any capabilities

you can read and write only in the application's own directory. You

need <codeph>AllFiles</codeph> capability to access all private directories.

Backup software can read and write to this directory.</p><p>The <codeph>\private\&lt;SID&gt;\import\</codeph> subfolder is for resource

files, such as registration files, that are not directly related to

the application. You can write into this subfolder only after it is

created and named correctly.</p><p>Application registration

resource files should be installed in the <parmname>\private\10003a3f\import\apps</parmname> subfolder.</p></li>

<li><p>The <parmname>\resource</parmname> folder is for

sharing resource files.  This data can be icons, bitmaps, and other

material useful for all the applications. You do not need any capabilities

to read these files. You need <codeph>TCB</codeph> capability to modify

the content.</p><p>ECom registration resource files should be

installed in the <parmname>\resource\plugins</parmname> subfolder.</p>

</li>

</ul>

<p>For more information, see <xref href="GUID-54E62386-E4DB-55C3-BA9A-FFB7BFE6703E.dita">File locations</xref>.</p>