Location of Documents folder for UWP app?

PaulH

If I create files in "|D|" in an app exported and built for Windows, where on Windows 10 would those files be written?

I'm wondering because I'm dealing with crashes on some customers computers when using lfs.dir(). More details here if interested: http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/8028/inconsistent-crash-on-windows-really-stumped#latest).

If I can determine the path to "|D|", I could do something like os.execute("dir /ad /b > folder_list.txt") to get a list of folders without using lfs.dir().

Paul

PaulH

The location seems to be something like:

c:\users\(user)\AppData\Local\Packages\(package name)\LocalState

Anyone know of a way to resolve the user or package name from within a Gideros app?

Paul

hgy29

It uses the LocalFolder as returned by UWP API. S/O suggest it will be something inside Users's AppData/Local/Package directory: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35006558/windows-storage-applicationdata-current-localfolder-path-changes-the-path-during

MoKaLux

there is also this:
Application:set => documentDirectory(path)
https://wiki.giderosmobile.com/index.php/Application:set
I wanted to try it but haven't had the occasion yet. Maybe that can work for you?

PaulH

Interesting. I see there's also Application:get(), but I can't find any details about how to use it. If the set() can set the document directory, can the get() possibly retrieve it, such that the resulting path could be used in an os.execute call?

PaulH

Ah. application:get("documentDirectory") I'll see if I can work with that.

PaulH

Dang. Calling application:get("documentDirectory") works great on the player, but on a UWP build, it returns nothing.

MoKaLux

dang!