How to get Personal Folder?

[MikeFieger]

Hi!

Does anybody know how I can get the personal folder? (for example 'C:\\My Documents')

Thanks,

Mike

[jimo]

Use "Get Folder Location".

[Ton_B]

Use "Get Folder Location"

like this:

Get common folder location My->My documents into MYDOCUMENTS

just copy and pase the following code:

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~InstallAware Clipboard Data~
~Get Folder Location~
~{849C9F36-B4F5-48CA-840C-CE2EECD04AF0}~
~MYDOCUMENTS~
~2~
~TRUE~

[MikeFieger]

Thank you!

[MikeFieger]

Hi!

If the program is installed by an administrator, a normal user has no access to the given folder. (Of course not, it is the administrators 'My Documents' and not the users 'My Documents').

How can I get the following folder?
WinXP: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Shared Documents'
Win2000: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents'

Or is there a folder that shows its contents to all users in their 'My Documents' folder?

And why does
Get Common Folder Location My->My Documents into PERSONALFOLDER
return the same as
Get Folder Location My->My Documents into PERSONALFOLDER


Greetings,

Mike

[jimo]

Checking "Get for All Users" doesn't work?

[MikeFieger]

No, as I wrote:

'
And why does Get Common Folder Location My->My Documents into PERSONALFOLDER
return the same as
Get Folder Location My->My Documents into PERSONALFOLDER
'

This is the difference between checking and unchecking "Get for All Users".

[jimo]

Mike,
I believe the problem is there is no "My Documents" for all users.

[jimo]

Mike,

Paste the following into a script and try it;

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~InstallAware Clipboard Data~
~Runtime Debug~
~{BB11D546-8C37-43FA-8970-5F98449C7632}~
~V10CMDLINE|/Debug~
~Runtime Debug IDE-PlugIn.dll\\Runtime Debug EXE-PlugIn.dll~
~End~
~{E1395705-EACC-45AD-A061-D7CE5ACF0B1E}~
~End~
~{948EB789-6F02-4D02-BC0C-3A10A12E9EC5}~
~End~
~{0689788D-F9EF-451C-A300-0D5B2BA90C46}~
~Set Variable~
~{C729F520-A8E5-4AF8-A18A-0376EE412569}~
~ALLUSERDOCS~
~$ALLUSERDOCS$Documents~
~If~
~{775616D5-F377-4714-989E-A0F569BE3327}~
~OSVER~
~0~
~TRUE~
~FALSE~
~Get System Settings~
~{FA276955-FD35-45DC-87E2-228643BCA9CF}~
~OSVER~
~24~
~Else~
~{1BBFFAFF-725A-4286-B910-BF491E0D90FC}~
~Set Variable~
~{6C2301C0-6789-4990-94AF-E234DF3E7725}~
~ALLUSERDOCS~
~$ALLUSERDOCS$Shared Documents~
~If~
~{991825DC-07A8-498B-BEC9-5CF4EDA8778E}~
~XPBASE~
~0~
~TRUE~
~FALSE~
~Parse String~
~{72E1FD43-9778-454C-86FF-BA35D9288FE4}~
~$ALLUSERSAPPDIR$~
~Application Data~
~ALLUSERDOCS~
~GARBAGE~
~0~
~TRUE~
~TRUE~
~Eval~
~{2B749504-87DE-4A98-8F3A-9D771E0E5A40}~
~$OSVERXP$="TRUE" or $OSVER2003$="TRUE"^|^XPBASE~
~mIDEEval.dll\\mEXEEval.dll~
~Get System Settings~
~{24B97172-545C-44D4-A8AC-B0DE8EC01ECA}~
~OSVER2003~
~26~
~Get System Settings~
~{B1F566B7-CB85-44DB-81A8-8D8C6249A646}~
~OSVERXP~
~25~
~If~
~{0B5CA103-2F4B-428D-A77A-BAA6581AAC6A}~
~OSVER~
~0~
~TRUE~
~FALSE~
~Get System Settings~
~{892DD891-D9DA-422D-BBE8-892CF9592A56}~
~OSVER~
~18~
~Get Folder Location~
~{FCBDB591-422D-4AA9-AE11-E1A7A42DAF4D}~
~ALLUSERSAPPDIR~
~15~
~TRUE~
~Set Variable~
~{78BAF4CF-4E83-4078-A222-2594AF18717A}~
~XPBASE~
~~


Which is;

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Set Variable XPBASE to
Get Common Folder Location System->Application Data Directory into ALLUSERSAPPDIR
Get System Setting Windows NT Kernel (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003) into OSVER
if Variable OSVER Equals TRUE
  Get System Setting Windows XP into OSVERXP
  Get System Setting Windows 2003 into OSVER2003
  Eval XPBASE = $OSVERXP$="TRUE" or $OSVER2003$="TRUE"
  Parse String $ALLUSERSAPPDIR$ into Variables ALLUSERDOCS and GARBAGE (Split at first occurrence of pattern)
  if Variable XPBASE Equals TRUE
    Set Variable ALLUSERDOCS to $ALLUSERDOCS$Shared Documents
    else
    Get System Setting Windows 2000 into OSVER
    if Variable OSVER Equals TRUE
      Set Variable ALLUSERDOCS to $ALLUSERDOCS$Documents
    end
  end
end
Runtime Debug: Show variables list


[MikeFieger]

Thank you for the script.

But there´s still one thing missing: This solution works only with english operating systems.
Modifying the script to work with most languages (including chinese) would be quite an anoying (and error-prone) procedure, I think.

Maybe InstallAware could enhance the 'Get common Folder Location' command for one of the next versions?

[jimo]

You mean people actually speak other languages?

Good Idea though, maybe Michael wil pass it up the ladder.

[CandiceJones]

Hi!

A typical path for "Shared Documents" seems to be:

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"C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents"

Searching for this value in the registry yields the following key:

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"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Shell Folders"

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Value: "Common Documents"
Data: "C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents"

So reading this key should always yield the proper result, regardless of OS language!