Read/Write of Files outside of Experts Directory?

 

I need to read and write files outside of the Experts directory, to some directory outside of the MT4 file structure.

According to the Documentation section here, access to files outside of the Experts Dir is "prohibited". Seems an absurd restriction to me, but I suppose they had *some* reason for doing it.

Has anyone found a workaround for this obstruction?

Many thanks,

Merlin