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Why does your installation zip file NOT have subfolders?

The vast majority of SNF installations on Windows systems keep all SNF components in the same folder. So, for the majority of folks SNF is simply decompressed into "its own folder", configured, and launched. This makes things simple and there is no question where to find things.

Along the way we have been asked for the ability to put logs in a different location, get rulebsae files from a different location, configuration files, and so forth. We've added those features so that the folks who have reason to move things around can do so.

We decided not to create a presumed directory structure for SNF because the folks who've asked us to provide these features all had their own unique way to divide things and move them. Any structure we created would have been wrong for most folks, so we keep the single folder option as our default since it is what everyone was used to and what most of our customers have been using.

SNF is used on a lot of platforms -- each with their own conventions. Not only that but within each platform administrators and user communities develop their own preferences.