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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 09:28:26 +0200
Subject: Re: Trouble getting to windows My Documents directory
From: Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>
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On 11 July 2015 at 02:24,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> The My Documents directory is not guaranteed to be named "Documents". On
> older versions of windows it was "My Documents", and on foreign versions
> of windows it is a name in their language.

That=E2=80=99s not necessarily =E2=80=9Colder=E2=80=9D.

Windows XP/7/8: My Documents
Windows Vista/8.1: Documents

As for localized versions, Vista and up do the translation in Windows
Explorer but use English names on disk.

=E2=80=A6but even with all that, users (or their administrators) can move t=
he
My Documents folder away from the home directory (to a file server,
for example).

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Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/>
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