The virtual filesystem
ThinApp packagers are working with three different virtual filesystems. The first one is the project folder content. Here, a packager can change the .ini files, replace the old .dll files with new updated ones, and delete or add any files and folders needed. The second virtual filesystem is created when compiling the project; an exact copy of the filesystem found in the project folder will be compiled into the package as a read-only version of the virtual filesystem. There is no way an end user can modify the content of the package. When using the application, a third version of the filesystem is created in the sandbox: the read and write version of the filesystem.
The complete filesystem known to the virtualized application ...
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